Community invited to Harwood spring Socrates Café on May 18

May 3, 2023  |  By Teighen Fils-Aime, Jack Greenwood & Finn Kramer

Community members join Harwood students for a Socrates Café in December 2022. Photo by Kathy Cadwell

The Socrates Café returns to Harwood Union High School on May 18. 

At December’s Socrates Café, nearly 100 people between the ages of 10 and 80 attended. It was a huge success as people of all ages and backgrounds made new friends, acquaintances and gained valuable insights about an important topic. 

To those who attended previously, we invite you to attend once again. For those who have yet to attend, here’s what to expect: an intentional, facilitated dialogue with your friends and neighbors about a timely and timeless question. This time our question is: Is happiness necessary for a meaningful life?

Harwood Union has been putting on Socrates Cafés since 2010 with a three-year pause during the pandemic. We’re happy to bring the community back together again for insightful discussions. 

The May Socrates Café is brought to you by Harwood’s Harkness Leadership class. This is a semester-long English elective, based around civil dialogue and incorporating student voice in the classroom.

We are very excited to discuss this question with you and hope you join us in expanding our knowledge about the topic, yourselves, and ourselves.

The Socrates Café will be held in the Harwood library from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 18.

Teighen Fils-Aime, Jack Greenwood and Finn Kramer are sophomores at Harwood Union High School.