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.
Curriculum - The subjects studied at school or during a course.
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.
John F Kennedy - President of the US from 1961 to 1963, when he was shot dead in Dallas. He was the fourth American president to be assassinated; Abraham Lincoln was the first.
Cuba - An island country between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
Bay of Pigs - In 1961, 1,500 Cubans who had fled Castro’s rule tried to seize power on the island, with covert US backing. Their attempt failed and it caused a political crisis in the USA.