What is your Opinion on Having Required Classes in Logic in Schools?

[Pyrrho]

Depending on the country students already have heavy schedules to allow for a critical thinking class - I do think it's a good idea though. A problem I see with this is that there's a lot of types of classes that could be taught as well, so I don't know why critical thinking and logic takes preference. In my country, highschool has a mandatory class of philosophy, so that usually teaches critical thinking and logic decently (at least for me it did and I had good scores).

Here is why I think logic and critical thinking should be taught early on:  It is applicable to all other subjects.  Reasoning fallaciously gets one into trouble regardless of the subject matter, and since committing fallacies is common, it would be very beneficial to do something to reduce the amount of fallacious reasoning that people engage in.  Cogent reasoning is good for all subjects, so it would likely help students perform better in all other subjects.

Regarding your high school requirement, in the U.S., there is generally no philosophy requirement in high school (or earlier) at all.  Not only that, but it typically is not even offered as an elective.