Persian Excursion: Sahar's Adventure log

Smartest thing I’ve read today. Shows a glimpse both of the promise and possible banality of the 2008 law mandating philosophy instruction in schools.

Promise: a Socratic dialogue on race, inequality, religion, authority of god, etc. Banality: Standardized rote-learning “what was Sartre’s nationality?”

Interesting how the corresponding idea to this in the US is civics class, What does it say for us to pose civics vs philosophy?

Civics might be structuralist, and more about understanding the pathways and potential of America’s democracy than on the values within.

Of course, everything can degenerate into rote learning. Sad.