Teaching rationality in schools

Started by rex, March 27, 2014, 12:33:40 AM

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rex

Why don't we teach logic, fallacies, rhetoric in schools? I think world would improve 10 times faster if we did that.
Religion would automatically go extinct.

Like seriously teaching in schools THIS would already improve the world by a LOT.

Plu

They should teach children programming in schools. It'll help them in their later lives in the modern age and includes a lot of useful traits for rationalizing people.

The problem with teaching them rhetoric is that it's pretty complicated stuff that children usually won't understand until they're older. One of the problems with religion is that it's designed to take hold before people are smart enough to understand it's bull, so teaching them won't help all that much I fear. Unless you figure out a way to teach them at a really young age.