Athens in Springfield

Abby Goodnough writes in the New York Times about a charter school in Springfield, Mass, where Thomas Wartenberg and students from Mount Holyoke College use classic children's books as a springboard for philosophical discussions. Bravo! Stories take children into counterfactuals worlds, challenging them to explore the perils and possibilities that authors have described in response to that great question "What if?" In another post, I described the work of Alison Gopnik and how she views c...