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The main objective of this research was to study the effect of philosophical stories on the questioning spirits of fifth grade elementary male students in Second District of Ardebil city. The study population included all fifth grade students out of which 50 were selected through the available sampling method and were divided into two groups with 25 members as experiment and control groups. The research instrument was a researcher made questionnaire and using a quasi-experimental study with the kind of pretest-posttest which was implemented by the Lipman exploration method and the philosophy was taught in ten sessions to strengthen students' questioning skills. In order to stimulate students' curiosity and questioning is necessary for teaching philosophy to children, the philosophical discussions were taught with little intellectual stories. Multivariate analysis of covariance was used to analyze the research. The results showed that the null hypothesis is rejected and the research hypothesis was confirmed with 95% confidence, so philosophical stories have a positive impact on students' questioning spirit. The results of this study are consistent with the findings of researches conducted abroad.