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What is your Opinion on Having Required Classes in Logic in Schools?
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RE: What is your Opinion on Having Required Classes in Logic in Schools?
July 26, 2015 at 3:13 pm
(July 26, 2015 at 3:05 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: It would be very beneficial, no doubt. I think there would be a lot of resistance to it in the U.S. because the religious right would paint it as state-sponsored teaching of atheism.

It absolutely should not be taught as preaching atheism.  It should be taught as critical thinking, just as it is commonly done in colleges today.  It is about method, not about results.

"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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