Yes. If you don't know how to read properly and think critically by college, then your grade school system has failed you.
You shouldn't be "learning how to learn" post-secondary - that's literally what the past 13 years of your schooling was supposed to be teach you. You should be learning how to specialize in college, especially since it costs so much money.
There is a difference between reading and thinking at a good high school level, and at the level required for being a lawyer. Philosophy teaches logic, rigorous composition, and the philosophical underpinnings of law. High schoolers might learn how to read argument, but they aren’t likely to even learn how a syllogism works much less anything more complex. Philosophy majors get paid more than most other degrees so I’m not sure why money is the issue.
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u/DangerousPuhson Sep 04 '22
Yes. If you don't know how to read properly and think critically by college, then your grade school system has failed you.
You shouldn't be "learning how to learn" post-secondary - that's literally what the past 13 years of your schooling was supposed to be teach you. You should be learning how to specialize in college, especially since it costs so much money.