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Education

Of Adolescents and The Aristotle

Michael J. Brown finds assumptions challenged in his Philosophy Club.

I had planned on five, perhaps six students showing up – nothing I’d have to prepare too much for; just a few extemporaneous remarks on philosophy and the usual haggling over scheduling a weekly meeting to talk about it. I was surprised, even panicked, when at the bell signaling the beginning of the pre-lunch free period, seventeen students passed through my door. Seventeen in a high school of only one hundred and sixty. Maybe I should have prepared something.

The gathering had been advertised by my announcement in homeroom that morning: I would be holding an informational meeting for all those interested in forming a Philosophy Club.

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