Could it help with real life? Teachers, parents and students all complain school does not teach us to think. Some believe we can fix this with some 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
Gloom - Sadness.
Philosophy - The study of key questions and knowledge about nature, reality and existence.
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.
Conversations - When two or more people are talking about a topic.
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.
Experts - Someone who knows a lot about a particular subject.
Probability - How likely something is to happen. The analysis of probability is called statistics.
Cancer - A disease in which some of the body's cells grow in an uncontrollable way. There are lots of different types of cancer.
Fiction - Things that are fictional are made up.