How to Run a Whole Class Discussion

The methodology that Lipman put together and became really widespread is that you start with a stimulus. You either maybe a passage from this novel that he'd written, or it could just be something to stimulate the kids thinking. And then they generate questions; there's a democratic process so that they select which question they most want to talk about. Then you go to the person who came up with the question and you say, what was your thinking?