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Following our recent focus on education, Kristina Pelletier asks why there is no place for philosophy in American public schools.

Philosophy doesn’t exist in most US public schools, and who cares? Like a long-lost shoe, what is there to talk about? Most don ’t notice or care about its absence. After all, how can a person miss something that has never been part of their experience? America decided to keep philosophy out of public schools long ago, following an 1893 report from the Committee of Ten. Literarily, ten men decided what subjects would be taught in schools. Philosophy was left out.

Motivated by an unshakable belief that philosophy matters in education, I have tried to find ways to introduce philosophy into secondary schools.

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