No matter how long I do Philosophy for Children I always feel moved when I hear children talk about what it means to them. Here are three quotes from primary school children.
I’d love to publish more pupil quotes about P4C in the future – if you have some that you’d like to share, please get in touch.
More quotes here: P4C pupil voice
A detailed description including building, helping, sharing and working together
How to start a question, and think about whether or not it’s philosophical
How do they want to behave to become great 4C thinkers?
Reminders from six-year-olds about some of the benefits of P4C
Show your pupils that you are trying to understand their thinking
Get your pupils thinking and talking about resilience, barriers, beauty and more
Pupils feel that P4C helps them with everything from relationships to confidence to staying calm
How one teacher helped her class go deeper in their P4C enquiry
A fun picture book which can provoke big thinking
What will your class make of these contrasting images of children’s lives around the world?
Could preventing some children from having best friends help others?
Get your pupils thinking about the rights and wrongs of activism
