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&#8220;Philosophy saved me from poverty and drugs: </br>That’s why I teach it to kids&#8221;

  • victore17
  • Nov 20, 2015
  • 2 min read

Largely because of the access I had to philosophy, I was brought safely away from the edge of the abyss that my life teetered above. But is my story just an anomaly? Is it or yet another tale of social mobility that is as unrepresentative as it is redemptive? Research by the Institute of Education has shown that a term of philosophy sessions improved the reading skills of children on free school meals when compared to a control group. If philosophy is made more available to working-class children, then stories like mine won’t seem so unusual.

Read the article by Andy West (The Philosophy Foundation) at The Guardian.

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