Blog 2 - What if everyone could and would reason?

Should reasoning skills be taught in primary school?

I think it would be a great idea to teach or at least give an idea of what “reasoning” is, but to teach this type of skill would require customization for each individual, since everyone thinks and believes completely different. Our ways or reasoning comes down to compromising to reach an agreeable outcome, but so many factors affect one’s ability to reason. Such as way of life, religion, positions on politics and personal beliefs and if they are able to look past it (stubbornness on positions). If we were able to find a way to make everyone understand that there are and is acceptable to have multiple theories and idea on how something came to be (god creating the universe or evolution from the primordial soup), but that would be reasoning within itself wouldn’t it? If such methods worked for a vast majority of people and students being able to understand this simple concept, maybe we wouldn’t have as many differences, people would maybe come to find there is no reason for racism, but in fact it is ethnicism since we are all one race regardless of color…. The human race. IF people were able to properly reason and be able to support their argument other than relying blind faith and ideas they have no true knowledge on, maybe we would be able to understand the difference with Muslims and terrorists and not make such careless misconceptions. Religions being able to accept the Koran, many versions of the bible, and any such text that religions base their beliefs on, would be a major step in peace and tranquility among mankind. If everyone had reasoning that should and could be taught in schools, may make a newer, better generation of adults. Maybe then overtime, we could all stand united regardless of backgrounds.