Message from @Acenan
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Well, the mainstream media is always going to go for the sensationalistic, especially if it fits the narrative they are trying to promote.
yup and with critical thinking a rarity
Well, you know critical thinking hasn't been promoted in school for a long time
It's always "here is what you need to memorize" and not "here is how you find truth in the world"
Yes, one of the things I think is absolutely necessary is that logic should be a required course for high school graduation. I mean what is now university-level logic. A full year. I mean two semesters of course, but yeah. I have said this for over a decade. And as someone with a degree in philosophy, with a focus in logic and the history of ideas, I know what I'm talking about. Logic would help the voter see through the bullshit rhetoric of political candidates, among other benefits.
Anyway, guys, nice chat, but I need to go put this phone on the charger. Live long and prosper. 🖖
University level logic? I hope you mean a level higher than today's University level logic. Because I think some high schooler are better than that now a days.
University is just daycare for overgrown children from helicopter parents with some poor souls who thought they would get a job with all this debt having been lied to that there are no trade jobs out there, despite some of those "dirty trade jobs" paying better than half of the undergrad degrees
I was an undergrad in the 1980s. We didn't have safe spaces and Trigger warnings and shit like that.
And I kind of doubt that logic classes have been dumbed down to pacify the crybullies.
It's logic, after all, not gender studies.
I just recently purchased my first rifle.
free game on GOG
@Giovanna Liviana you assume they still have logic courses. Given that science is under attack because it facts don't care about feels says logic is a dying art on college grounds.
I know when I went, it was not a mandatory class (although they selected my class to test pilot a logic course to add to the common core. But I got out right before all the PC stuff really took over)
Someone is exploding things in Syria again..
Seems like something did happen as there was registerd an 2.6 earthquake in the area.. https://twitter.com/myearthquakeapp/status/990691523472838657
Seems to be an arms depot exploded for some reason
" @WaelAlRussi " on twitter is the source apparently ..
Many dodgy sources claiming US/Israel missile strike.. Most from @WaelAlRussi 's unconfirmed local sources..
Only thing confirmed at this time, by the Syrian state is that it was an explosion in the Hama province..
@Grenade123 seeing as Logic is the crown of the Trivium, and thus one of the Seven Liberal Arts and Sciences, the very basis of Education in a free society, those Arts and Sciences proper for a free person to know, whence the name ***Liberal*** Arts and Sciences, I have very serious doubts that the university system would eliminate the teaching of Logic, regardless of what some post-structuralist- and postmodernist- inspired outrage mongers want. Also, seeing as how most undergraduate Philosophy programs on the European continent and in the United States focus on Logic and the history of ideas, ... yeah, they aren't getting rid of Logic, and I know very well that there are still Philosophy departments.
the whole structure of public education needs to be restructured. Too many quotas, not enough being taught how to teach one's self and learn things on their own
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They dont teach people how to study anymore
how to think
they teach what to think, not how to think
how to seek their own conclusions, etc.
yep
which is not exactly bad for the state.
I was lucky enough that I had proffs in college that actually did teach How
for the most part, i think most teachers want to actually teach how to think, not what to think
def
i had great teachers in high school, and good professors in college. But i consider myself extremely lucky in that respect
same
probably a bonus from going to small schools and seeking out a college that was on the smaller side