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Education Programming 101: Destroy Logic
by
Nemo1024
on 07/12/2014, 14:23:38 UTC
A friend pointed me to this article, as a fair warning:

Education Programming 101: Destroy Logic
http://www.zengardner.com/education-programming-101-destroy-logic/

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In our teaching institutions, you could look in vain to find courses on the individual, his freedom, his power. That’s gone. It’s no accident that serious training in logic is also gone. And by serious, I mean the application of logic to formal arguments on issues that determine our future.

In many cases, instead, education is about: what group do you belong to? What are the needs of that group? Who is oppressing your group? How can you get government to solve the problem?

If you can educate the young to make snap judgements about core ideas, you eliminate their capacity to reason. You own them.


EDIT: Adding to the OP.

A must-read for anyone reading MSM.

Dissecting the Media - The Words They Use, The Minds They Sway
http://oursolaris.blogspot.nl/2015/02/dissecting-media-words-they-use-minds.html

A must-know list of logical fallacies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies