The Great Connections Seminar

The Great Connections Seminar
Discussing ethics

Saturday, February 4, 2012

No Debate: Kids can learn by arguing

Read about Diana Kuhn, Columbia University psychology professor's experiment teaching minority sixth graders how to discuss and debate in a philosophy class. They outperformed a traditionally-taught philosophy class hands-down in writing essays, while having far less experience.

More proof of the power of Socratic Seminars.

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