However, they have rather limited trust in the powers of their own logic, as the experience of school has taught them that they are often wrong. They don’t have the numerical skills to embark on anything more numerically ambitious than what money requires.
I believe the situation is a good bit worse than that. One of the underlying lessons of conventional schooling is “You can’t be trusted to think about what you need to know.”
One of the underlying lessons of conventional schooling is “You can’t be trusted to think about what you need to know.”
Do mean this in the sense of “you can’t think be trusted to think about important things” or in the sense of “you can’t be trusted to decide which things are important”? I agree with the second, and think it’s what you mean, but not the first.
I believe the situation is a good bit worse than that. One of the underlying lessons of conventional schooling is “You can’t be trusted to think about what you need to know.”
Do mean this in the sense of “you can’t think be trusted to think about important things” or in the sense of “you can’t be trusted to decide which things are important”? I agree with the second, and think it’s what you mean, but not the first.