The vital skill our kids aren’t learning
July 3, 2025
It’s clear our school curricula need to change. Fast. Dramatically.
As the parent of children soon entering the critical schooling years, I know that I want them almost solely focused on three things: Practical use of technology (like AI), business (accounting and corporate structures), and logic.
We spend no time at all teaching our kids about logical fallacies, and yet they are the very center of coding, human machine interfaces, media literacy, and just about every other vital skill in modern society.
“You are stupid, therefore you’re wrong” is a classic fallacy we see every day.
But this does not cohere.
The Wikipedia page alone lists hundreds of such fallacies, but how many children can name even one?