Educational Counseling through Philosophical Dialog

The present paper, while explaining the process of philosophical counseling, is intended to challenge one of the important problems that have engaged both parents and teachers nowadays. In doing so, the writer firstly poses some fundamental questions including: what are the reasons for students’ anxiety? Do students have a low level of IQ? Should we search for the roots of their problems in their tensions and emotions? What is meant by philosophical educational counseling? How does it help the students to deal with their educational problems? Then she introduces a method of dealing with students’ educational problems called “philosophical counseling”. This method has at its heart the method of Socratic dialog which concentrates on thinking. Here, the students are not viewed as empty vessels which must be continually filled by teachers. Neither are they considered as individuals who should receive advice from both their teachers and parents at all times. Rather, they are conceived of free, equal, and independent learners. This method also presents some new ideas with regard to testing students and its related problems.