My sister is a grad of a philosophy for children program in Montclair, New Jersey, got her degree quite awhile back. Seemed a very innovative program.
I fall back on Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics a lot, when introducing the possibility of a tetrahedral model of 3rd powering, actually more obvious than the cube-based in many ways. Teaching philosophy to children is a subversive activity because it improves their debating skills and defenses against curriculum material the state mandates and which teachers have limited ability to defend. I think snuffing out philosophy has been an important development in academia, where there's a pale form of rhetoric / logic, a remnant, but the computer science people have really taken that over already. Philosophy has been extinguished. Ergo, bringing it back among children may be somewhat difficult. I'm encouraged by the work of Rev. Billy in this regard and his Church of Stop Shopping. I just watched the documentary last night and have rarely met a philosopher I respect more. Kirby -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
