What bugs me about philosophy teaching is that it teaches that philosophy is useless. Every philosophy curriculum starts with a lecture on “Why study philosophy?” No one suggests in these lectures that the answers found in philosophy should affect the way you act (or the way you vote). No; they are to be fun, or satisfy your curiousity about “the big questions”, or teach you how to think and critically analyze claims (even though they often involve no critical analysis!)
What bugs me about philosophy teaching is that it teaches that philosophy is useless. Every philosophy curriculum starts with a lecture on “Why study philosophy?” No one suggests in these lectures that the answers found in philosophy should affect the way you act (or the way you vote). No; they are to be fun, or satisfy your curiousity about “the big questions”, or teach you how to think and critically analyze claims (even though they often involve no critical analysis!)