At,
You wrote in reply to John Gunkler
...snip...
"In my counseling of low performing students I discovered that
many of
them
did not have problems with scientific subjects (like chemistry
or
biology)
per se, nor with learning or psychological problems, but with
with logic
itself. After twenty years I now feel strongly that "logic
literacy",
just
like "computer literacy", should be offered as a first year
course for
all
students at a tertiary education institution. I often even
wonder if
"logical literacy" should not be one of the main topics in
Systems
Thinking (one of the five discipline of LOs). "
I was reminded of the writing of Robert Kegan in 'Over Our Heads' who
maintains that there are different orders of thinking requiring the
ability -- as they rise -- to see things progressively more abstractly, as
alternatively related and unrelated (I am grossly oversimplifying). Your
observation was to me echoic. But Kegan is not so sanguine about the
ability to 'teach' this higher order; he finds it missing in about half
the adult population. He also sees it as developmental and only naturally
occurring in small increments. Thought you'd enjoy the parallel theme.
All the best,
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