Teach a Child How to Think
This is a new addition to our schoolroom this year. I have wanted this book for many years but considered it an “extra” and never purchased it. Well, this was the year I spent the extra money and have been kicking myself ever since for not purchasing it sooner! I love this book and so do the children.
It is great when you are sitting at the table for dinner and amongst the chatter you hear one of the children yell out, “RED HERRING!”.
So what is a fallacy?
A fallacy is an error in logic – a place where someone has made a mistake in his thinking.
The Fallacy Detective contains thirty-six lessons on how to recognize bad reasoning. The book is fun to use and self-teaching. The lessons cover logical fallacies and propaganda techniques. They also explain how you can spot fallacies, and there are exercises to stretch your abilities for detecting fallacies. The book includes a game and many cartoons as examples of the fallacy being covered. The cartoons include Peanuts, Dilbert, Calvin & Hobbes, and several original cartoons.
For more information, videos, how to order, and a sample lesson visit Christian Logic.
Posted in Curriculum, Homeschooling, Train Up a Child, What to Read
October 9th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
Teaching kids how to think and not just what to think is important. My wife and I were talking the other day how children aren’t taught how to think, and the next generation is going to be the poorer for it.
October 9th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
You are so correct! We are trying to teach our children HOW to think not to just regurgitate facts. They do need to know the facts and we teach them the facts in the grammar stage, when they are older and in the logic stage we teach them how to think through things! That is the classical approach which is not utilized much these days.
October 9th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
We are been working on training the children that when they have special classes, usually the books are picked by the teacher to fit what they believe. This doesn’t always mean it is right. Victoria is getting a good dose of this with her constitution class and one of the adults last week congratulated her on researching and coming to class with her own thoughts. It was encouraging for her to see that she wasn’t “blasted” for not going with the flow.
God bless,
Sallie