Purposeful Ramblings Through My Mind

And this is so basic, too. I mean, all I did was apply some rules of logic that should be very easy to teach and almost automatic to apply. But they're not taught. Maybe we need to go backwards a hundred years and teach logic, rhetoric, and other debating tactics in our schools as a matter of course. It's inexcusable that this guy, who has several Ph.D's and teaches in a university, can be out-thought by a teacher whose last science class was (the Ontario equivalent of) senior AP Chemistry, thirteen years ago. I didn't even do that well in it.