Why Study Philosophy?
Published in Sydney's Child, April 2003. Reproduced on http://www.goodtherapy.com.au/ February, 2006. The unexamined life is not worth living. - Socrates Amazing isn’t it how much faith we put in our schools. Right from the tender age of five when our children are so impressionable we send them off day after day to be taught by a teacher we have hardly met. How much do we know about the teachers who will educate them, the friends they will meet and the ideas they will be fed? Very little I suggest. Nevertheless with very little knowledge of what they are about to receive we gaily send them off the school trusting that they will learn something of value and not come across anything too horrific. What do we expect our children to learn at school? The list is long and varied depending on who you talk to. It normally includes: literacy and numeracy, art and music, sport, languages, history and geography, discipline, social skills, perhaps religion and certainly something which wil