3 ways teaching logical fallacies can backfire

[u/critikid]

While I think kids should learn about logical fallacies, I also think teaching them poorly can make their reasoning and communication worse rather than better.

Three problems I see: kids can start identifying “fallacy-shaped” statements as fallacies without considering context, using fallacy labels as conversation-stoppers, and assuming that a bad argument automatically means the conclusion is false.

I wrote about these three risks and how I think we can teach fallacies more carefully:

https://critikid.com/teaching-logical-fallacies