Should Reasoning Skills be Taught in Primary School?

Reasoning skills should be taught in primary schools. Children should be taught reasoning skills for the sake of solving problems and being able to read between the lines of communication. This would help them to communicate more effectively and also become better listeners. It would help the children bring a sense of fun and accomplishment to math and science class problem solving. It would help them in all areas of their lives and professions they may choose.

It would help them engage in conversation with people they barely know, hold their own at parties and dinner conversations, and how to respond graciously to idiots, drunks and other problem personalities. It is a critical life skill, and one that few people have mastered. They would understand advertisements and understand the true meaning of the advertisers purpose to sell them.

By learning these reasoning skills, they become more creative and stronger personally and are nicer to be around. They develop the ability to reach sound conclusions based on observation and information. Students would develop the ability to assess the authenticity, accuracy and worth of knowledge claims, beliefs, or arguments. It helps students to apply everything they already know and feel, to evaluate their own thinking, and change their own behavior. They need to have this type of skill for their future.

Reasoning skills has nothing to do with intelligence. It is a skill that may be improved in everyone. It is not something that develops with maturity, therefore, should be taught to all ages. When they develop good reasoning skills at a young age, they have a good chance with these skills and have a better opportunity to perform well in job interviews when they graduate from high school. Employers wouldn’t say that they haven’t learned reasoning skills because they were taught at a younger age and employers would be able to see that.
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