{"id":4369,"date":"2013-05-30T08:46:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philosophyforchildren.org\/everyone-sees-things-so-differently\/"},"modified":"2013-05-30T08:46:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T15:46:00","slug":"everyone-sees-things-so-differently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plato-philosophy.org\/everyone-sees-things-so-differently\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone Sees Things So Differently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;\">&#8220;<i>It doesn&#8217;t frustrate me that we don&#8217;t have the answers to these questions. I like hearing what other people think about them, because there are so many different ways people think about things. That&#8217;s what&#8217;s great about philosophy, you realize that everyone sees things so differently.<\/i>&#8220;<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Fourth grade student at Whittier Elementary School, Seattle<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;\">When I consider why it&#8217;s important that we encourage children to explore the philosophical dimension of the world, one of the things that I think matters most is that this practice helps children appreciate that the world contains many perspectives. This supports children&#8217;s abilities to evaluate critically their own views and reasoning, because taking seriously points of view other than your own leads to examining your own thinking in a new light. Moreover, the experience of grasping that there are questions for which there are not settled answers, that can be approached from a variety of angles, leads to an understanding that not all questions lead to easy answers and that there are numerous ways &#8211; all unique and valuable &#8211; to see the same thing.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;\">Philosophy teaches us to take any view seriously &#8211; even when it seems outlandish &#8211; if there are good reasons offered for it. Especially in this time in human history, where greater and greater presumed&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"line-height: 18px;\">certainty about knowledge, identity and moral beliefs lead people to extreme acts of violence and oppression, it&#8217;s imperative that our children recognize that there are many legitimate ways to see the world.<\/span><\/span><br \/><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t frustrate me that we don&#8217;t have the answers to these questions. I like hearing what other people think about them, because there are so many different ways people think about things. 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