Dialectics for Kids Site Map

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The ABC's of Change - Ages 4 and up
Popcorn, Earthquakes, and Other Changes - Ages 5 and up
Bit by Bit . . . Then all at Once - Ages 7 and up
Circles or Spirals? - Ages 9 and up
- More explanation of spirals
Ten Ways You Turn into Your Opposite- Ages 9 and up
Dialectics--The Musical - Songs for all ages
Dialectics for Teachers - Exercises for students
What the Heck is Dialectics? - For big kids. Opening essay includes links to:
- What Isn't Made of Opposites? - These are the suggestions sent by readers in response to my challenge to name something that is not made of opposites, along with my defense of the proposition that everything is made of opposites.
- Dialectics of Water
- Dialectics of the Universe
- The Top Ten Stories of All Time
  "What the Heck is Dialectics?" also includes the following essays:
  1. Where did this all come from? - Hegel, Heraclitus, Lao-tzu This essay goes into the history of dialectics, including "It's all Greek to me," and may be the most challenging essay on this site. This essay also links to "What does dialectics have to do with communism?", an essay critiquing Marxist economics.
  2. Contradictions - First things first This is an attempt to apply dialectics to today's world by identifying the principal contradictions we humans face.
    - Contradictions Everywhere
  3. Why doesn't everyone learn about dialectics? - The red scare
    This essay addresses the question--"If dialectics is so easy, why is it made out to be so hard?" The essay also includes links to the following progressive sources of information:
  4. What good does it do to understand dialectics? - Making changes
Dialectics and the film Half Nelson - For movie goers (R rated)