Truth and Philosophy

During our Philosophy sessions the children have been analysing a book called, 'The Honest to Goodness Truth'. Over the past three weeks they have discussed their feelings and opinions about telling the truth and lying and shared some personal experiences with their peers. After reading the book, each of the children wrote questions, a sample of these are below. We then used a question quadrant to sort the questions into four categories 

THE ANSWER IS IN THE BOOK

USE YOUR IMAGINATION

ASK AN EXPERT

BIG IDEA

I wonder why her mum would tell her sometimes you should keep things to yourself?

Why did she pick a flower?

Should you always tell the truth, even if it will hurt people?

I wonder if she will do it again?

I wonder if you should always tell the truth?

Why do people lie?

Is the truth sometimes bad?

Did she understand that the truth is not always right?

Can you take the truth too far?

I wonder if kids will stop lying?

Why didn’t she feed Old Boss in the first place?

How can the truth be bad?

Are you allowed to lie?

Should you lie if it makes others happy?

Is the truth really that bad?

BELOW IS SOME FEEDBACK FROM THE CHILDREN 

AFTER THE PHILOSOPHY SESSION:

"If you tell a lie for the bad you should say sorry. If you tell a lie for the good you don’t have to."

"Some questions you can find an answer to if you ask an expert."

"I like to do the learning altogether. By arranging our questions in the middle we can see our thinking."

"The set up is a good way of organising our ideas."

"It can be important to use your imagination for a certain reasons."

"It can be helpful to ask an expert because you find out new things."

"A big idea is a question or statement with many, many different explanations to how it can be solved."

"I think it is not easy to solve or think about a big idea. You need to work on it. You can’s just say it is this or that."