ABSTRACT

This chapter develops a lesson as an instrument of powerful learning in critical thinking and in philosophy for children. It introduces a context for painlessly learning a narrative structure for a logical structure handled by all three-year-olds, and often badly by educated adults. Many teachers would be unhappy in contemplating a speaking and listening lesson as long as ninety minutes. The lesson plan aims to; develop sensitive and structured speaking and listening; develop peer-correction of structured thinking; gain delight in developing new understanding; enter new areas of intellectual interest; and see further possibilities of the structure. Writing sentences in quoting children's ideas is a further diversity in the lesson. With the class in a circle or facing front, indicate the novelty of the material and the concern with learning to think better. The strategy is as appropriate to specifically approaching any curriculum concepts as it is to exploring contradiction as a feature of thinking.