和孩子做哲学：如何让孩子敢问、会问、爱问

On World Philosophy Day a Year 4 girl asked Dr Zhihao Yan, on camera, why am I me — the question that had sent him to a philosophy department and kept him there for seven years. This is his account of what children's philosophy is and is not. It is not a professor visiting a primary school: Matthew Lipman built P4C because he found his Columbia undergraduates rigid and incurious, which means the course was designed to fix children rather than to start from them, an original sin his Chinese colleague Liu Xiaodong names. He separates philosophical thinking from general critical thinking — it is meta, boundary-crossing, and asks after the presuppositions each subject is allowed to leave alone — and he argues children are philosophers without training: lovers of wisdom who do not yet know how to love it steadily. Then a transcript of a class arguing about love, kissing and marriage.