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...notion sounds abstract. But the study cites successful work by the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children. Founded by Professor Matthew Lipman of Montclair State College in New Jersey, the institute offers a reading and discussion program that teaches the fundamentals of logic to schoolchildren as early as the fifth grade. The text for the program contains stories about young "Harry Stottlemeier" (Lipman's transliteration of Aristotle), who playfully makes discoveries about syllogistic major premises and unsnarls faulty logic like the following: "All minnows are fish; all sharks are fish; therefore, all minnows are sharks...
Igor Bobrowsky Upper Montclair...
David N. Alloway Upper Montclair...