5th graders participated in the Philosophy Cafe via Zoom during Sophie’s time (moral education).
A philosophy café is an activity to discuss questions that have no single correct answer.
This time, Professor Tetsuya Kono of Rikkyo University and four students participated as facilitators, and students discussed four different themes.
① What is school?
② Is it strange to have no friends?
③ Why do people become too lazy to do something?
④ Why do we grow old?
It seemed difficult to come up with opinions on questions that had no answers, but with the help of the leading students, the children came up with opinions from various perspectives and deepened their thinking through dialogue.