The Question Zoo

It’s been said that school is about getting children to give other people’s answers to other people’s questions.

This day is all about creating juicy, philosophical questions of your own and then exploring them until your brains cry for mercy.

At the end of the day, release your favourite questions into the wild to prey on passers-by.

With a crowded curriculum, there can be little time for pupils to pursue questions that catch their interest in real depth.

Indeed, seeing questions as something you can be good at asking, rather than just good at answering is an important shift for some gifted children.

It helps them to take more risks with their thinking, and to be excited rather than uncomfortable with questions where they can’t play “snap” with the answer the teacher already has in mind – because the teacher doesn’t know either!

You’ll see from the list of discussions that children sometimes choose to sensitive questions that teachers might normally shy away from.

That’s one reason why this opportunity to see the Philosophy for Children (P4C) method in action is particularly good for the professional development of any staff who are able to observe.

Usually run as a whole day with the same group, can also work as two half-day sessions with different groups.

Sample Questions

If God made everything, who made God?

How do you know your dreams aren’t real?

Is it OK to be gay?

Could communism ever work?

Why do girls wear make-up?

Is assisted suicide wrong?

Is “nothing” something?

How many generations do you need to have been in the UK to be British?

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