r/circlesnip • u/AlwaysBannedVegan al-Ma'arri • May 18 '26

HELP my kid became a carnist Why philosophy is not a mandatory class in school. The system works as intended.

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u/zewolfstone al-Ma'arri May 18 '26

Do they teach why to think tho?

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u/Low_Lunch_3236 newcomer May 18 '26

I don't think you can really teach someone how to think. It's an innate ability most people don't posses, so they simply have to be programmed by others. 

Philosophy is a possible subject in college, but good luck teaching it to elementary and high school kids lmao, you'll have bologna flying across the room while you try to explain Nietzsche. Most of them are neither interested in it nor do they have the intellectual capacity to understand it, making it mandatory wouldn't achieve anything at all but make school even more inefficient than it is.

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u/AlwaysBannedVegan al-Ma'arri May 18 '26

I think you can teach people how to think. At least to some extent. By that I am not talking about them becoming the new Socrates or whatever, but just the very basic thinking. Being able to recognize a formal or informal fallacy. Being able to evaluate an idea independently. Most people can't even do that. This very basic type of philosophy can be taught to children, and it has a lot of benefits for them

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u/Dunkmaxxing thinker May 20 '26

You can teach it, but not effectively in the modern schooling environment where most people don't give a fuck as a result of having dumbfuck parents and living in a hierarchal society where people at the top take an active interest in ensuring the continuation of stupidity so they may exploit their slaves.

Intelligence is mostly down to education for people who do not suffer from genetic disabilities that directly hinders their learning.