Besides science, logic and rhetoric need to be required subjects.
Our young people go out in to the world as sheep amongst the wolves, unable to defend their minds against the predators of Global Warming, Communism and COVID.
They need to be able to recognize a fallacious argument or a false dilemma when they see it.
Semantics would also be very useful today because it is the meaning of words that today is used to manipulate the young today. I can’t keep up with the ever changing meaning of words today.
“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”
― George Orwell, 1984