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Do a web search on "Building Thinking Skills" and "Critical Thinking" you should find plenty of resources to teach children "thinking skills". I'm not sure if I can post links, so just PM me for exact sites to check. My oldest daughter is 5, and it's part of my after-school education for her. She likes going through the books with daddy ...
Do a web search on "Building Thinking Skills" and "Critical Thinking" you should find plenty of resources to teach children "thinking skills". I'm not sure if I can post links, so just PM me for exact sites to check. My oldest daughter is 5, and it's part of my after-school education for her. She likes going through the books with daddy ...
That looks interesting, I had no idea such courses existed.
Rational thought and religion don't really have a great deal to do with each other -- nor, from the perspective of either one, should they.
Religion is a matter of faith, not fact; if facts were present, faith would not be necessary. I do not have to have faith that 1+1=2 in order to see that it does.
Rational thought is not a matter of opinion. It is much closer to mathematics than to any other discipline.
Great post CW. The teaching of logic and rational thought are not "brainwashing" as some are claiming. More like a branch of mathematics useful for the evaluating the validity of arguments. Consider the following argument:
An elephant has ears.
My brother has ears.
Therefore, my bother is an elephant.
While both premises of this argument are true, the conclusion is false. Yet a surprising number of individuals let themselves be swayed by arguments like this when the underlying language is not so obvious.
This is a very simple example. We owe a great deal to ancient and medieval logicians for formalizing the rules of logic which, when applied properly, are of great use as B.S. detectors.
considering the kids today can barely read, spell or can do math without a calculator i dont see how anyone is going to be able to get them to "think correctly"
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