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Should students receive education on logical fallacies?

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Perdition
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05-12-2009 12:48 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Creation Is Fallacious
05-11-2009 10:02 PM

I've long been in favor of teaching critical thinking in 5th grade and continuing the education, much like math, English, science, etc are all progressive. Teaching kids to think for themselves while also teaching them HOW to think for themselves would do a lot of help in this country.
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05-12-2009 5:37 PM 		Reply to: Message 18 by Taq
05-12-2009 5:12 PM

I don't see how other classes can lend themselves so easily to demonstrating why these are logical fallacies. A philosophy course would definitely work, but very rarely do high schools have such classes.
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Which, to my mind, is a great disservice. We should have a basic philosophy course, starting around 5th grade, IMHO, teaching basic logic and critical thinking, progressing through middle school and high school to deeper categories such as ethics/morality, theology, and such.
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05-13-2009 12:04 PM 		Reply to: Message 20 by Taq
05-12-2009 6:24 PM

I didn't expect to get into Platonic Forms in 5th grade, just the basic critical thinking skills and the basic logic functions such as Modus Tollens and Modus Ponens, etc.
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