ochikochi ni taki no otokiku wakaba kana
fresh young leaves –
the sound of a waterfall
both far and near
Yosa Buson
June Birthdays
June 5 Charles Hartshorne (American, born 1897) and Adam Smith (Scottish, born 1723)
June 6 Isaiah Berlin (British, born 1909)
June 9 Nikolai Fedorovich Fedorov (Russian, born 1829)
June 14 Bernard Bosanquet (British, born 1848)
June 18 Jurgen Habermas (German, born 1929)
June 19 Blaise Pascal (French, born 1623)
June 21 Jean-Paul Sartre (French, born 1905) and Anthony Collins (British, born 1676)
June 23 Alan Turing (British, born 1912) and Giambattista Vico (Italian, born 1668)
June 24 Julia Kristeva (Bulgarian-French, born 1941)
June 25 Willard Van Orman Quine (American, born 1908)
June 27 Emma Goldman (Lithuanian-American, born 1869)
June 28 Jean-Jacques Rousseau (French, born 1712)
Jana Mohr Lone is the director and founder of the University of Washington Center for Philosophy for Children, an academic research center dedicated to research and practice in philosophy for children and philosophy of childhood, and she is an Affiliate Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington. Jana is the author of Seen and Not Heard (2021) and The Philosophical Child (2012). She co-authored the textbook Philosophy in Education: Questioning and Dialogue in Schools (2016) and co-edited the collection of essays Philosophy and Education: Introducing Philosophy to Young People (2012). Since 1995 she has taught philosophy in classrooms from preschool to college and beyond. A frequent writer and speaker about precollege philosophy, Jana is the founding president of PLATO (Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization) and the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Questions: Philosophy for Young People. Follow her on Twitter: @JanaMohrLone