Irish Teacher: My heart swells with pride at Young Philosophy Awards

If the antithesis of Twitter could exist in physical form it would be this competition

Myles Stomaite who won the national runner up prize in the Irish Young Philosopher's Award 2023

Is there ever such a thing as a just war? Should food companies put calorie counts on their products? Was Plato trying to warn us against social media thousands of year ago?

The standard of enquiry at this year’s Young Philosophy Award was mind-blowing. Student-led, the award makes you feel a little less panicked about the future of humankind. Sure, we might be dealing with power-hungry despots and the chaos of global warming, but we still have young people. And what a mighty force, indeed. In fact, having spent last Tuesday with two busloads of secondary school students travelling up from Cork to Dublin for the event, I’m willing to wager that they are our biggest asset, tipping the balance, certainly in my mind, towards the positive.