While other five-year-olds are learning to spell their names and tie up shoelaces, infants at one school are debating life's great mysteries - in philosophy lessons. Staff say that instead of ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Every Wednesday afternoon in term 3, all students at Malabar Public School put away their textbooks and gather in their classrooms to ...

Which is better, day or night? Is there really such a thing as good luck? Do people ever truly appreciate what they have? And can a five-year-old really be expected to grasp the thorny issues of ...

So much of education today is centered around generating skills that are designed to translate directly into a student's future career. While providing students with practical knowledge and skills is ...

Philosophy lessons have a London primary school record the top SATs test scores in England for the second year in a row, the school's headmistress claimed today. Primary league tables 2012: "Engaging ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...