Orange Elephants and Sweet Tears

Abstract

Introduction:  Orange Elephants!  Snow in August!  Tears that taste sweet!  Rebecca!  This delightful little girl and her unending questions involved each of my first graders this year in beginning philosophical inquiry.  I taught the course in my classroom in a low socio-economic area of the city.  "Thinking Time" was a period of about twenty minutes two or three times weekly.