You probably heard about the climate activists who threw soup on a Van Gogh painting. Here’s a link to the video, which you could use as a Philosophy for Children stimulus:
Philosophical concepts include protest, damage, property, law, activism, climate change, risk, value and art.
Here are a few thoughts from some nine-year-olds in Manchester:
I thought it was wrong to destroy the painting because I love art.
It was right. The painting could be fixed; people’s lives are more important.
It was wrong because the painting is precious, but they were doing it for human rights.
If they didn’t do that, they wouldn’t have got attention, but it was wrong too.
It was a good thing, because they did it for the right reasons.
I wonder what your students think.
