Could it help with real life? Teachers, parents and students alike have long complained school does not teach us to think. Some believe we can fix this with a dose of old ideas.
Put philosophy on syllabus says union
Rolling the dice: An important new book out this week, The Art of Uncertainty, argues that our failure to appreciate how risk and luck work, skews many of our judgements and causes us harm. Glossary
Trade union - An organisation of workers who band together to negotiate their wages and working conditions collectively, on grounds that this gives them more bargaining power.
Dialogue - Conversation.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - An 18th Century Swiss philosopher whose book Reveries of the Solitary Walker extolled the virtues of being alone in nature.
Paulo Freire - A Brazilian philosopher and educator. He advocated critical pedagogy: the idea that teaching should encourage students to think about power structures and inequality.
Doyen - The most respected or important person in a particular field.
Delirium - A disturbed state of mind, with symptoms such as hallucinations and confusion.
Hysteria - A state of uncontrollable emotional excess, such as overwhelming fear or excitement, leading to irrational behaviour or a loss of control.