ABSTRACT
To think about childhood is also a chance to question what we have constructed in the name of childhood, particularly in education. In a sense, this a Foucauldian path and my main aim is to offer some ideas on thinking differently about the place of childhood in education, and, more specifically, the meaning given to philosophy in the education of childhood. The chapter draws on two ancient Greek philosophers significant sources in helping me to think about childhood as educating. They are Socrates and Plato, whose relationship, according to contemporary French philosopher Jacques Derrida, constitutes philosophy itself. Socrates is the inventor of philosophy as a form of questioning practice; Plato is one of his disciples through whom we know Socrates as the philosopher who wrote nothing down.
