I agree with nearly all of your posts regarding this issue except for this:
This does not have to be taught to people younger than the fourth or fifth grade, nor to students with advanced learning disabilities... just as biology is often not addressed to kids in that position.
I think that logic and knowledge theory should be integrated into teaching at all levels of education. Granted it shouldn't be taught in the same way that other subjects are taught early on.
Teacher: Okay class, before recess lets all open our Epistomology Primers to chapter 2.
I am thinking more on the lines of purposfully integrating it into lessons on math and science at the level the kids are ready to understand it.
As sad as it is to say, here I was with a degree in computer science with a minor in applied mathematics and I had no idea what the difference between a Definition, Theorem, Lemma, and Proposition. Granted, I used analogues in my field all the time but it was frustrating to feel so left behind when I took my first Galois Theory class in a masters program. I feel that these are basic things that should have been presented to me in some forms way back in high school or middle school. If I had understood them then I feel I would be much farther along now then I am.
This is probably more along the lines when you also think these things should be introduced. I just think it should be in an integrated way with the primary diciplines that use them and no skimping the 1st graders out of such an important part of education.
Certainly we cannot fix all of societies problems but maybe if we did this they may be one or two less kids in hitchy's class that didn't have a clue.
FOX has a pretty good system they have cooked up. 10 mil people watch the show on the network, FOX. Then 5 mil, different people, tune into FOX News to get outraged by it. I just hope that those good, God fearing people at FOX continue to battle those morally bankrupt people at FOX.
-- Lewis Black, The Daily Show
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