Show A FAILURE IN EDUCATION forum when one ox reviews review the course of in st traction ruction in schools and colleges coll ga with the intention of discovering how bow ranch much of it contributes contribute directly to the develop meant lent of reasoning power one cannot but be struck with the vry very small email portion of time expressly devoted to this all important ob object eject no amount of mem me oriter study of languages or of the natural sciences and SO 0 o attainments attain menta to in arithmetic arith metlo will protect a man or woman except imperfectly through a 9 I 1 I 1 certain indirect cultivation of general intelligence from succumbing to the first plausible delusion or sophism he or she may encounter no anion amount ut of such beoh studies will protect one from believing in astrology or theosophy or free silver or strikes or boycotts boy cotta or in the persecution of jewoir jews or mormons cormons Mor mons or in the violent exclusion of nonunion non union men from employment one to is fortified against the acceptance of unreasonable pro only by skill in determining facts facto through observation and experience by practice in comparing facts facto or t groups group of facts facto and by the unvarying habit of questioning and verifying allegations legations so and of distinguishing between acts and info inferences from facts fact and between a and an aa antecedent event one must have hare direct trai training ding and practice in logical speech and writing before he can be b quite safe against specious rhetoric and imaginative oratory many popular delusions are founded ou the commonest of fallacies this thia preceded that therefore his hi a caus d thikton tbt tOr or in shorter pre preceded ded caused for example I 1 war waa sic sica ka I 1 took such and such a mod medicine ichao and became well therefore the medicine cured me during the civil war the government issued many millions of paper mone mono yand some men mb became becam very every rich therefore the way to make all men richer must be t t issue from frem the government prue presses an indefinite amount of paper money the wag wadea of american work ingman are higher than those tho of in the same trades trade protection rot so has baa been the policy of the V baited cited state stag and approximate free trade the policy of england therefore high tariffs caucis high wages wag bessemer steeles much cheaper tow bow than it wag wae twenty yn years ago KO there has baa beans bea a tariff tax gou bessemer teel steel in the united halted states state for the past twenty years yearn therefore the tax cheapened the steel england prance france and germany are civilized civil lied and abd prosperous nation Batio nW they have enormous enor public debts therefore a public debt is a blessing bleul ng he must carry ithuriel ablis s spear and wr wear tout stout arm armor or who can always alway expose and resist a fallacy it Is i not only the uneducated or the little educated who are van vaa quieted by it there ar are many educated people who have little better protection against delusions delu siona and Sophi sophisms sms than the uneducated fur the limp dimple reason that their education though prolonged and elaborate was wa till still not abot of a kind to train their judgment and breuni P g powers |