The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #169010   Message #4084281
Posted By: Steve Shaw
20-Dec-20 - 09:10 AM
Thread Name: BS: How can we restore a reason renaissance
Subject: RE: BS: How can we restore a reason renaissance
It's certainly true of me, too. The trouble with schooling (especially secondary) is that we are hidebound by the Victorian concept of discrete "subjects." When it comes to the issues we are discussing here (logic, reason, thinking, and I'd add personal relationships to those), they are issues that don't need "specialists" at all. Every teacher should be alerted in their training to the need to integrate all these areas into their everyday "subject" teaching. The days of drafting in the school nurse or the vicar to regale the poor little mites with their notions of love and sex should have been well and truly numbered decades ago, for example. It's all ALL our responsibility to the next generation, and if we take it on board it will make better people of us too.