While other five-year-olds are learning to spell their names and tie up shoelaces, infants at one school are debating life's great mysteries - in philosophy lessons. Staff say that instead of ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Every Wednesday afternoon in term 3, all students at Malabar Public School put away their textbooks and gather in their classrooms to ...

Which is better, day or night? Is there really such a thing as good luck? Do people ever truly appreciate what they have? And can a five-year-old really be expected to grasp the thorny issues of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Move over Porter and Handy; step in Plato and Descartes. Melbourne Business School in Australia has appointed a ...

For the average five-year-old, you might expect playtime rather than Plato to be upmost in their thoughts. But now the sound of neo-Socratic dialogue can be heard in primary school classrooms ...