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Why isn’t logic a subject in schools ?
Posted on: September 5, 2008 - 11:48am
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Why isn’t logic a subject in schools ?
Why isn’t logic a subject in schools ? It’s a interesting question so please give me your opinion. Warning I’m not a native English speaker. http://downloads.khinsider.com/?u=281515 DDR and game sound track download
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"Physical reality” isn’t some arbitrary demarcation. It is defined in terms of what we can systematically investigate, directly or not, by means of our senses. It is preposterous to assert that the process of systematic scientific reasoning arbitrarily excludes “non-physical explanations” because the very notion of “non-physical explanation” is contradictory.
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I suspect it may be worse than that. I've seen a trend recently in the states where theists teach their kids at home since the school isn't religious enough. I doubt very much that a system which uses internationally agreed upon criteria would be very religious freindly.
Deludedgod, if you happen to know off hand, when was IB introduced to the Canadian educational system? I'd never heard of it before.
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Can someone please tell me what IB stands for. It's very well to know what it is, but I cannot look it up for myself because I don't know what it means.
Deludedgod, are you sure it's used in Canada? And where? Are you referring to an International Baccalaureate (IB)?
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"Well the things that happen less often are more likely to be the result of the supper natural. A thing like loosing my keys in the morning is not likely supper natural, but finding a thousand dollars or meeting a celebrity might be."
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"Physical reality” isn’t some arbitrary demarcation. It is defined in terms of what we can systematically investigate, directly or not, by means of our senses. It is preposterous to assert that the process of systematic scientific reasoning arbitrarily excludes “non-physical explanations” because the very notion of “non-physical explanation” is contradictory.
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Oh. In which case a few of those schools exist.
Churches thrive on the "herd mentality".(Thank you Nietzsche) Knowledge leads to power and towards becoming a free-thinker. In which case you become dangerous to the church. Let's face it the church is a self empowering entity. Since any church thrives on the illogical it just is damn near impossible to have logic added to a school's curriculum. Unfortunately the power of the church is far reaching and their hypocricy knows no bounds.
Well said. Sagan thought critical thinking to be important enough to teach a special class in it albeit to only a few select students. I was lucky enough to go to private school where there was no elected school board, the curriculum being set by the headmaster in concert with the trustees and the heads of department & based upon the Cambridge "O" & "A" Level courses and had some truly great teachers.
My Grade 7 teacher (last year of Junior School, 12 years old) remains one of the most influential. An outspoken atheist, he was teaching critical thought until his death in 1994. A testament to the man (Owen Davies) was that he often said that one of his greatest problems with Christianity was that you could live a life of sin & wrongdoing, but repent on your deathbed & go to heaven. His reported last words were a tirade of abuse directed at the Zimbawean cricket selectors for choosing, in his view, the wrong players for the then upcoming tour.
I'm still in touch with a few people from that year. Most are atheist, agnostic or apathetic, but one is a Methodist minister in Harare. Goes to show you can't reach everyone.
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This topic might be old, but I participated in it, and there's something that needs to be said.
You've obviously never debated me.
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Wrong again. After a transition to a socialist state, the governments that so mismanaged various things before would no longer exist.
Wrong again.
Since your questions here are based on a strawman, they deserve no recognition.
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