Getting children to think

 'P4C', as it known, is a really powerful tool for getting children to think - and think hard. Not only hitting all the right thinking skills buttons across all curriculum subject areas P4C also delivers a huge payback with regard to self-esteem, where shy and quiet children have used P4C as a way of growing enormously in confidence.
Matthew Lipmann, a professor of philosophy who realized that his students could tell you what Descartes or Plato thought but were incapable of thinking for them, P4C has been gaining in popularity in the UK for over ten years.

"Education is the great engine of personal development It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another." Nelson Mandela