Hsin-Wen Lee often asks students a short question: Do you agree? It doesn’t matter if the answer is yes or no, because the associate professor of philosophy isn’t teaching students what to think or ...

Schools are generally taught to teach kids what to think, but what if they taught them how to think instead? According to a new study conducted among 3,000 kids in 48 schools across England, ...

Thirty-three SUNY Cortland undergraduates recently decided to give away $10,000 in real money to four Cortland non-profit organizations they think will use the funds to help develop local residents’ ...

Philosophy at UB is not just something you read. It is something you practice. Through research, internships, applied projects and global experiences, you will test ideas in real settings, work ...

The current pandemic has interrupted life as we know it. People – individuals and nations – have reacted differently to the shock. We have all had to try to make sense of the situation as restrictions ...

Philosophy is a very dense universe to approach for young people. Because it includes many thinkers who have totally different views on human experience, existence, etc. Presented in this way, it can ...

Socrates had important answers to the big questions in life. But he was especially good at asking questions, helping his students use their own reason to discover answers that were available to them ...

Alsoraimi-Espiritu is an English professor at San Diego City College and lives in Rolando Park. My first-grader does not read yet. But she sews, finger knits, sings, sculpts with beeswax, paints with ...

We hear a lot about things kids “must” learn. Indeed, President Obama just announced he was going to ask Congress for $4 billion to fund an initiative to bring computer science to more students.

You undoubtedly possess the content knowledge necessary to teach your subject matter. But what inspires you to teach? Reflecting on why and how you teach informs you on your implicit values about ...