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Permalink Reply by Dave G on April 8, 2009 at 12:32am

I was fairly lucky, we had a Humanities class (AP only) in my high school that covered some of the basics of philosophical thought. Plus my World History teacher, as part of the histories of other countries, briefly covered their religions as well, at least acknowledging their existence,

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Permalink Reply by Jason Brown on May 4, 2009 at 5:46pm

Just how in NZ a craphole Jess? *stern look*

I remember when I was in school, about 180 years ago now, granted, but while we had no formal critical thinking class, our teachers certainly encouraged it, at least mine did.

Besides, I like it here, there's no huge religious political movement and you;re not likely to get shot for refusing to believe in someone else's imaginary friends ...

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Permalink Reply by Aric on April 8, 2009 at 12:53am

It certainly couldn't hurt for students to learn logic and philosophy.

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