We're Going To Rotterdam
The choice of the two top essays
this year was very difficult. But our judges have finally made their decisions
and we have confirmed the APO 2017 winners. They are Gustavo Berho from Washington state and Anna Stoneman from Wisconsin.
If you are not yet a senior in
High School as of the date of this post, you will be able to participate in the
APO 2018. Announcements for it will be published on this blog, the first blog
address given below. On that same blog spot you will be able to read about the
IPO 2017. Also, the format for the APO 2018 might be a little different and the
topics will be different from the APO 2017, so read the AP-CP blog to be
informed about that when the time comes in the fall.
I thank all of those who
participated in the APO 2017. Thank you for your efforts to write and submit a
philosophical essay to the APO. Bright students like this year’s contestants
need critical and philosophical thinking to see beyond the limits of your
common core of subjects in high school. Philosophical training and thinking
will help high school students to go into an unknown future and make it better
than any of their teachers know how to now.
I encourage all of this year’s
contestants and, indeed, all of my readers to keep reading and ‘doing’
philosophy. Share your thoughts with your friends and always remember that some
other people always know more than we do. But through dialogue we can all learn
from each other.
By the way, you may all become a
members of the AP-CP blog. The more members we have, the bigger voice we have
to speak up for pre-college philosophy in the USA.
