A Liberal Decalogue: Bertrand Russell's 10 Commandments of Teaching. General Philosophy. Philosophy And The Two-Sided Brain. Why Gilson? Why Now? by Dr. Peter Redpath. Critical thinking critical to teaching - The Drum Opinion. Find More Stories Critical thinking critical to teaching Damon Young "I can't teach philosophy," said the secondary teacher at the café. "I don't want to think. " She wasn't talking about ordinary thought, of course. Instead, this is 'thought' understood philosophically: critical thinking, to take the fashionable jargon. A good English-language example of this is Hume on necessity, in A Treatise of Human Nature.
The point is not that Hume is perfectly correct. What does this have to do with the secondary teacher? But if not, I can infer, from her willingness to confess to her colleagues, that she is not ashamed of her beliefs. Put simply, groups of teachers can easily tolerate the replacement of critical thinking with 'common sense'.
It is the kind of knowledge one simply 'knows'. Importantly, this happens in most communities - it is not something unique to the teaching profession. But it is a particular problem in schools. Without critical thinking, a teacher cannot do research. Email Share x. A Liberal Decalogue: Bertrand Russell's 10 Commandments of Teaching. Action Philosophers: Two Millennia of Philosophy in Comic Form. By Maria Popova John Stuart Mill meets Peanuts, or how to handle mummies like Carl Jung.
Graphic nonfiction has established itself as a storytelling medium for educational entertainment and entertaining education, from the history of the atomic bomb to the life and times of Hunter S. Thompson to the Zen of Steve Jobs. Action Philosophers! (public library), a mega-tome collecting all nine volumes of the celebrated series by graphic artist Ryan Dunlavey and writer Fred Van Lente, takes you on an ideological journey from the pre-Socratics to Jacques Derrida, by way of Rene Descartes, John Stuart Mill, and Carl Jung, giving those literary action figures a run for the money. ↬ Open Culture Donating = Loving Bringing you (ad-free) Brain Pickings takes hundreds of hours each month. You can also become a one-time patron with a single donation in any amount: Brain Pickings has a free weekly newsletter.
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Decencies for Skeptics by Roger Scruton, City Journal Spring 1996. Behind the 1994 Republican congressional triumph was a hunger for moral absolutes.
To the conservative conscience, the virtues praised by our liberal elites are the vices that undermine society. What the liberal sees as toleration, the conservative sees as complicity in wrongdoing; what the liberal sees as compassion for the weak and the needy, the conservative sees as the rewarding of irresponsible behavior.
Illegitimacy, welfare dependency, divorce and marital breakdown—even the rise in drug abuse and crime—strike the conservative as exactly what you must expect when the stern morality of duty gives way to the sentimental morality of “caring.†When every attempt to impose standards is greeted as a form of discrimination, when the only response to social failure is to multiply the rights and curtail the responsibilities of those whose actions are the cause of it, and when the greatest sin is the sin of disapproval, then is it surprising if society begins to fall apart? Your edupolicy adversaries: they're not evil and you don't know what they think.
Move over Socrates: a practical guide to teaching poetry with philosophy. Peter Worley teaches philosophy through poetry using light-hearted exercises for the brain, in verse.
Photograph: www.alamy.com I have been doing philosophy with children in primary and secondary schools for the past 10 years and have been on a never-ending mission to find stimuli for making philosophy accessible. Poetry seemed to me to be a natural place to look but I found that, apart from a few notable exceptions, most of the poems I found were not directed enough towards a particular philosophical problem. In many ways this is their virtue. But it did make doing philosophy using poetry difficult as the discussions tended to find their way into non-philosophical territory. After hunting through many poetry anthologies and finding only a few suitable poems I decided to have a go myself.
We called our new kind of poetry Thoughtings but we did not make the title up ourselves. This is an example of a Thoughting - it's called The Talking Poem: "What do you mean? " "Like what? " Michel Foucault: Free Lectures on Truth, Discourse & The Self. Image by Lucas Barroso Félix, via Wikimedia Commons Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was an enormously influential French philosopher who wrote, among other things, historical analyses of psychiatry, medicine, the prison system, and the function of sexuality in social organizations.
He spent some time during the last years of his life at UC Berkeley, delivering several lectures in English. And happily they were recorded for posterity: These last lectures are also available on YouTube (in audio format). Walter Kaufmann’s Lectures on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Sartre (1960)