Featured Supporter messages

A great footballer achieves that status as much through his ability to think on his feet and read a game as it does from training or innate ability. How could anyone not agree that teaching children to think about everything in their lives wouldn't be just as useful?
Gary Lineker

I didn’t think I would ever be managing the Socrates Wanderers. But the project is an important one, as well as being a fun event.
Graham Taylor

This is a great idea, I think. At least, I think I think that.
Andy Hamilton

I am an enthusiastic supporter of The Philosophy Shop and The 4Rs campaign. Children are natural philosophers – they have the curiosity and zest and open-mindedness to explore the big questions.  And a re-enactment of the Monty Python Philosophers' Football Match is a brilliant idea - irreverence and fun should be central to the philosophic life, as Socrates showed!
Dr Angie Hobbs

Children are philosophers by nature and should be given every opportunity to think and enquire and become like Socrates in their own right.
AC Grayling

Philosophy should be at the core of our country's national curriculum: the ability to ask searching questions, as well as the skill to construct coherent arguments, are the real life skills which we will increasingly need if our young people are going to flourish in the knowledge economy of the future.  The Philosophy Shop is doing vital work in developing critical thinking in our children.  They deserve our support, and in this case, they deserve it from the terraces as well.
Dr Anthony Seldon

I’m very happy to be supporting this initiative to introduce primary school children to philosophy.
Ariane Sherine

Everything I know about football I learnt from the great philosophers.
Arthur Smith

Ludwig Wittgenstein once said that philosophy isn't a theory, but an activity, and I'm glad to see you guys are proving it. Of course, I hear 'Luddy' always got picked last for football and the other kids used to give him a wedgie and steal his lunch money, so what does he know?
Fred Van Lente

Wouldn't it be amazing if our age was remembered not for its greed, or aggression, or foolishness - but for its belief in expanding minds? The Philosophy Shop makes that a possibility. Who could deny it is a good idea to help make our kids lovers of wisdom?
Bettany Hughes