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Maria daVenza Tillmanns considers the need for freedom of speech for children.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/159/Parrhesia_and_Doing_Philosophy_with_Children

Very nice introduction to the subject. it leaves the question: is education something being done to these students? ideally education could be something done with the students; if educators actually had the luxury of individualizing education to the individual student (outside of special education instances) it could prove extremely beneficial to the learner...

is it enough to implant a drive or desire in the pupil to become the ideal learner? is it even possible? perhaps it is - depending on the student (however, that student would be the exception...)

freedom of thought within the structure and strictures of language is a somewhat noble idea... in education one may understand new aspects and observations with the ability to express them as their experience expands...

philosophy? society demands something else entirely from "public school" graduates...

-Imp

Keep the childrens as far away from philosophy as possible! But if one absolutely insists on making them philosophers (i.e. giving them jargonitis), let Stirner be their very first book.

Here we go again...

"Speaking freely and frankly" about what?

On the one hand, you encourage your children to go out into the world as individuals and to find themselves. To be themselves. To speak their own minds. Then one day one of them comes home with a copy of Mein Kampf...

Again, it's the Ayn Rand Syndrome. She encouraged those around her to become staunch individualists...as long as they thought exactly as she did about everything.

How about you? Where did you draw the line here with your kids?

Given all of the vast and varied schools of philosophy your child may come upon -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_s ... philosophy -- which one reflects what you deem to be the optimal or most rational frame of mind? The one you hope your child comes to...share with you?