Monday, March 8, 2010

Reasoning Skills Should Be Taught In Primary School

Reasoning skills should be taught in primary school. It is important that we are taught reasoning skills early on in life because it will provide young people with skills that would better their adult lives, it would help people evaluate their own ways of thinking and make us more independent thinkers, and because reasoning skills are not necessarily something that develops as we age. Some people may be opposed to teaching reasoning skills in primary schools for different reasons, one being the difficulty of working a new subject into a school's curriculum. But if schools were to figure out a way to fit in teaching reasoning skills, I think it would be a huge benefit to the students.

If students were being taught better reasoning skills in primary school, I think students would be more likely to succeed in college. Thinking skills include thinking analytically, logically, and creatively to form reasoned judgements and solve problems. Reasoning skills will help students make better judgements when it comes to education and also in personal lives, leading us to being better well rounded adults.

Reasoning skills help us evaluate our own ways of thinking and help us to be more independent in our thinking. The world we live in today is constantly trying to tell us what to think. For example, the advertisements we are bombarded with daily are always trying to sell us products that they want us to feel are necessary or needed. Advertisements want us to believe that a company's product is the best. But in reality things being advertised may not be necessary, needed, or the best at all. Good reasoning skills would help us to think for ourselves, and help us to make better decisions about the things we buy or any other types of choices we may face.

Without reasoning skills, we would have a tough time in life. We'd be more likely to make poor decisions and less likely to succeed. Reasoning skills are not necessarily developed as we age, this is one reason why it's so important that we are taught early on. Teaching reasoning skills in primary school would help us to ensure that students have the tools and abilities to succeed throughout school and adulthood. It would help ensure that we are able to think for ourselves and make wise decisions in the world we live in.

Teaching reasoning skill in primary school is a good way to give young people the tools they need for success. Being taught reasoning skills would better our adult lives and help us learn to evaluate our thinking so we can be more independent thinkers. Because reasoning skills are not necessarily developed as we age, it's important to ensure we have the skills by teaching them in primary school.

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