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What do we teach?
P4C is not your typical lecture-style class. Students and teachers often sit in a circle and, after establishing some rules of how to maintain an intellectually-safe learning environment, discuss topics which the children themselves often come up with. The discussions are often very interesting and it is our teachers' job is to help facilitate (and participate in) these discussions in a way which encourages creative thinking and logical skill. (See our toolkit for some helpful ways we do this). See below for some example questions we've already talked about this semester.
Examples
Below are just a handful of the great questions the children themselves have raised in previous P4C sessions.
- What does it mean to be a friend?
- What is real? What is fake?
- How do I know that I'm not dreaming right now?
- Who created time? What is time?
- What was there before God?
- What is a story?
- What are ghosts? Are things like that real?
- Where do clouds come from?
- What are UFOs?
- Do mermaids exist?
- Where do stars come from?
- Why is the Earth spinning?
- How and why do cats purr?
- How was the Earth made?
- How did God make Himself?
- Where does the Tooth Fairy live?
- Who/What made the stars?
- Is the virtual/computer world different from this one?
- Why does the earth have colors? What is color?
- What are shadows?
- How did God make the earth?
- Do cats have nine lives?
- What is a life? & What is a soul?
- What will the end of the world be like and why?
- What does God look like?
- What is life? What does life mean?
- Why are there animals?