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Originally Posted by Kybosh
I strongly believe that a high school course needs to be implemented for logic and the scientific method. That course would be significantly more valuable than whatever life skills course they use now about how to pay your damn bills or put a damn condom on.
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I do wonder why we don't use the Socratic method in high school, and teach students to beware of cognitive biases and rhetorical fallacies. Are skepticism and reason considered threatening to other, more cuddly value systems? Is it hard to find teachers versed in these principles?