Q1. How are the concerns of Philosophy different from the concerns of Religion? How are they similar?
Q2. According to Socrates, what was the "one good" and the "one evil?" How did the process of questioning put individuals on the path toward good?
Q3. According to Aristotle, how do we acquire knowledge? Though he originally believed our minds are "unscribed (blank) tablets," how did he come to decide that the ability to reason, which he thought sets humans apart from animals, was an innate quality--one that humans are born with?
Q4. What conclusions can you draw between William Graham Sumner's criticism of school education (from the first reading) and Dan Rothstein's graph showing the age children stop asking questions?
Q5. What empowered the parents in Lawrence, Massachusetts to make improvements in their children's education and their own involvement in the process?
Q6. Why did the Socratic Method--or asking questions--has persisted into the 21st century as an educational tool and as a way to help us develop our own faculties of critical thinking? Can you think of a time in your life when asking questions had a positive outcome? Why or why not?