Alan Sandy is an educator specialising in philosophy, literature, critical thinking, and academic English. With extensive international experience and an MSc TESOL from St Andrews, he creates accessible humanities learning for multilingual learners.
Philosophy: A definition Philosophy is unlike other traditional subjects, such as Geography or History. These ask students to remember a lot of information, such as dates, places, events, and names. Philosophy is not concerned with memorising dates, places, events, and names, but rather focuses on the mental activity of thinking.
This site grew out of one belief: those who learn English deserve more than the English language – they deserve the whole world. Too often, language learning is framed as merely about grammatical mastery, exam strategies, and functional communication. But language is also about philosophy, literature, ethics, hermeneutics, and critical reading