So as briefly as possible;

In my country, philosophy is taught at an academic level (pre-academic is also possible in some institutions as an optional course but I don't know what that consists of) either on it's own as a subject, or as part of a combined qualification called PPE (politics, philosophy, economics).

Generally courses are closely tied to career paths (and social status), so the philosophy subject indicates that you wish to be an academic or a retail worker or unemployed, while the PPE subject indicates that you wish to join the ranks of the ruling classes.

Of course philosophy is touched on in other subjects too (mostly the 'humanities'), but these are the two key areas.

Something I think a lot about is an attempt at an initiative (by academics) to get philosophy taught in schools, at a primary school age (so ages 4-11 ish). It didn't go anywhere I don't think because of austerity.

So I have some questions, I've not studied education/pedagogy btw so if someone else happens to have that'd be an interesting perspective (but thinking is for everyone i don't mean only answer if you've got a piece of paper saying you can);

1. Can you teach philosophy to children that young?

2. How would you go about it? I mean, what approaches or cirriculum?

3. For anarchists, what would a less structured philosophy education look like, and the same questions about age and approaches?

4. Should you teach philosophy that young?

Another thing - I know in my country at least, that science education is taught in a not-strictly-true way when children are young and then retaught in a more accurate way at academic level.

I don't like this approach instinctively it feels like lying but maybe it's necessary, and if so how would you present philosophy to children in a comprehensible way?