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This week, a tool to quickly create questions on any philosophically interesting concept. The example attached is on “freedom”. Just do a “search and replace” to swap in your own concept, and you’ll have 16 questions to choose from either ready-to-use or needing minimal editing. Try it now by reading these, replacing “freedom/free” with “friendship/friend” or beauty/beautiful, fairness, knowledge… Conceptual – meaning – What […]

For my online classes at www.p4he.org last week I’ve been using a session on time from David Birch’s Thinking Beans (attached here) with some twists.  Like David, I like to get the children doing “experiments” that give them an “in” to the discussion from their own immediate experience. So, I start the session by asking them all

If five people are friends, how many friendships are there? New year and perhaps new school, so “make new friends, keep the old” has a special intensity. You might build up to the title question, starting with, “If two people are friends, how many friendships are there?”  Perhaps A’s friendship for B, B’s for A; A&B’s different