"Learning to think is a difficult thing, a complex question by nature," says Edwige Chirouter, who was recently named to head the new UNESCO Chair on philosophy practice with children. That's why some deplore the fact that this subject isn't taught until the final years of schooling, and calls have begun to rise for philosophy classes to be introduced early in childhood. This ability to be amazed, as well as a desire to understand, is a first step towards philosophy. It is indeed a natural predisposition that we lose as the years go by.
GENEVA - "Who is God?" "And if he didn't create the earth, then who did?" "Why do some people believe in God and others don't?" "What was there before the Big Bang?" Children have an astounding capacity to ask, very early on, the most profound metaphysical questions.
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