Should reasoning skills be taught in primary school? Why or why not?

     Should reasoning skills be taught in primary school? The answer is Yes! And further more I want to know why I was not taught any of these skills in my primary school experience.  If someone would have taught me how to make educated decisions early on, maybe I would be making better decisions now.  The sooner the better it is for children to learn useful skills, because young kids are capable of absorbing more information.  If children were taught early on how to reason they could formulate better decisions later on, understand the learning process, and be overall more educated.  
     Abc's, counting, and pronouncing short words are all part of a first graders learning agenda.  Along side of those skills, a variety of reasoning skills should be incorporated into the learning process.   The idea of weighing options and assessing outcomes is a great thing to learn.  I am sure even some adults would like to improve those skills.  To give kids a leg up they should be learning these skills in primary school.  Their future selves would thank their elementary school teachers for giving them these valuable tools. Don't you wish hip hop artist Cam'ron was taught better reasoning skills.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTwipn-Fp_U&feature=player_embedded
     Secondly, didn't you always want to know why math was important?  Children are famous for the question "why?".  "Why do I have to go to school?"or "Why do I have to learn this?" are asked even early on.  If a child is provided with stronger reasoning skills the answers to those questions can be understood.  (Although some learning subjects will never be understood.:))  When the reason you are learning something is clear and makes sense to a student learning becomes more engaging.
     Finally,  it makes perfect sense to teach reasoning skills in primary school.  Human beings are always looking for ways to increase intelligence and get more out of education.  Teaching reasoning skills would give children a better chance for success.  Some people would say there is no reason to learn these skills so early.  Well, they obviously don't understand how the developing mind works.  A young mind is very sponge-like so it makes it easier to learn.  For example if you want to teach a child a new language you teach them as early as possible.  They have an advantage over older people because of their developing minds. 
     Putting the opportunity to learn reasoning skills in primary school is the best thing we can do for our society.  I fully support this idea.                  
    
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