Together with the children, know yourself, know the world and live a prudent and meaningful life。
— —Angel Lin
P4C is a proven inquiry-based pedagogy where students take the lead and teachers facilitate. It shows students how to think independently, reason effectively, communicate persuasively and explore their values. The process of Implementing P4C is an exploration of the essence of education, which relies on teachers’ realization of life education. It also challenges teachers’ philosophy attainment and self-renewal capacity. In short, this road is challenging yet meaningful because it leads to the inner soul.
Jessica Zhang
Teaching Grade: Grade 1
Teaching P4C is like diving into the world of thinking together with my kids.
Lisa Wu
Teaching Grade: Grade 5
P4C for me is a student – centered lesson where they are encouraged to think, discuss and follow their own lines of inquiry..
Matthew Lipman once depicted the practitioners of P4C like this, “You’re going to do something completely different. You’ll feel insecure and not ready. In fact, none of the philosophy teachers feels ready, regardless of their level of expertise, because you’re more or less dealing with unpredictable things. You’re in a field where the concepts aren’t perfect and the problems can’t be solved and your job is be ready to do something really educational.”
Education is a tree shaking a tree, a cloud to promote a cloud, a soul awaken another soul.
—— Karl Theodor Jaspers
P4C shows teachers how to
♥Teach through dialogue
♥Facilitate student-led inquiries
♥Get to know the students better
Hazel Hua
Teaching Grade: Grade 3
Philosophy of children is a teaching method to develop children’s thinking ability, cultivate children’s critical thinking, collaborative thinking, caring thinking and creative thinking, and guide children to think actively.
Julia Ren
Teaching Grade: Grade 4
Children’s Philosophy is a discipline that helps teachers and students to understand themselves better and improve their social skills, cooperative behavior and rational decision-making ability in the learning process.
P4C shows students how to
♥Think independently and creatively
♥Learn with peers in a constructive way
♥Reason effectively
♥Explore their own values and virtues
♥Communicate reasonably
Ivy Chen
Teaching Grade: Grade 2
As a facilitator, I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
Miranda
Teaching Grade: Grade 5
When lack of inspiration in the design of inquiry activities, philosophy of children can stimulate my thinking and provide me with the best solution at any moment.
As the new school year starts, more teachers have joined the P4C family. Together we will establish a philosophy inquiry community that is caring, cooperative, critical and creative. Along the way of pursuing for wisdom and truth, we will expand the depth and width of life with both reason and affection. May all people find the inner pleasure!
