tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5090403.post6151037670017665966..comments2023-09-07T04:24:11.648-06:00Comments on y-intercept blog: The Triviumy-intercepthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03389285761013186443noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5090403.post-88464831114880634952007-10-15T12:14:00.000-06:002007-10-15T12:14:00.000-06:00The book is not a logic book. It was written early...The book is not a logic book. It was written early last century by a Catholic nun at a time when John Dewey and his cohorts were engaged in a full frontal assault on classical education. The author's goal was simply to show the thinking behind the trivium.<BR/><BR/>This book was aimed at college freshmen.<BR/><BR/>The book is currently popular among people interested in education reform as it shows a completely different style of thinking.<BR/><BR/>This classical method of thinking is completely different from new think that came from Hegel and Dewey.<BR/><BR/>I am pretty much of the opinion that we need to have classes in informal logic in school somewhere in K-12 (probably junior high). People in a free society need to know how to put together their ideas and to recognize logical fallacies in the rhetoric of others.<BR/><BR/>While a such a class would not be difficult, having studied the history of logic, I realized that writing such a curriculum is a real bear. There are hundreds of different approaches to logic.<BR/><BR/>A top heavy public bureaucracy would not be able to choose the best approach. <BR/><BR/>An open education market would be able to simultaneously pursue different approaches and it would be able to figure out the apropriate grade level for the logic class.y-intercepthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03389285761013186443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5090403.post-42421010525565790852007-10-15T09:19:00.000-06:002007-10-15T09:19:00.000-06:00Thanks. I'll buy the book and read it.Thanks. I'll buy the book and read it.Scott Hinrichshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11831447472339880148noreply@blogger.com