Mary asked:

I need to develop a philosophy of education on sex education. I am having problems how to word
this. The population I would like to target are 6th and 7th graders along with their parents.

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I would have thought the least of the problems with putting forward a philosophy of education
concerning specifically sex education would be how to word it... though given the subject, no doubt
there might be points were discretion is called for. The question is the "philosophy" itself — if you
have clarified what you really believe about it I would have thought the wording would have happened
at the same time?

I would however most strongly recommend you take a look at the chapter on sex in Roger Scruton's
book (rather naffly titled) An Intelligent Persons Guide to Philosophy(Duckworth, ISBN 0 7156 2789
— 9). I would hope that anyone involved in enunciating a "philosophy of sex education" would attempt
to take some account the sort of considerations he raises... Roger is hardly one of the coolest of cats
and the thought of him or (any philosopher I can think of) pronouncing on matters sexual might be
rather abhorrent, just as Wittgenstein found the thought of Bertrand Russell so doing... Nevertheless I
believe it may be worth a look.

Robert de Villiers