I don't want to sound like a bigot

[james_davis_nicoll]

I'm really annoyed at how completely I've forgotten calculus.

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[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

I wish bullshit detection was a course in itself.

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

Critical Thinking comes close with some instructors.

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

I've never seen that offered as a subject here in Australia, but I wish it was - where's that taught?

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

UW (James' alma mater) has it on offer. Here, have a look at the syllabus.

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

Ooh! I just wish that sort of thing was presented as a core high school subject.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

There was actually a mini-course in critical thinking in my fifth- or sixth-grade class, I forget which (I spent two years with the same teacher and essentially the same classmates). It was the late seventies. There was a textbook and everything. They talked about reasoning from prejudice, emotionally loaded statements, various logical fallacies.

My understanding is that whenever people try this in primary or secondary education, it's politically unpopular because it's considered a stalking horse for liberal secularism.

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

Gotta hate that left-leaning bias of facts...

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

Again, in the close but not quite category -- my friend was part of the IB (International Baccalaureate) program, which offered epistemology courses.

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

Required you to take those, actually.