Reasoning Skills in Primary Schools?

 This post will be a discussion on the teaching of reasoning skills in primary schools and it's positive and/or negative outcomes. Initially I feel that yes, we should introduce reasoning skills to our children at a younger age. There are benefits to this in many different aspects. For one our children will be exposed to a higher level of learning sooner therefore, enhancing their education and increasing their comprehension sooner in life. Then there is the expansion of their young minds. However we have to consider the children's youth when deciding to more of a workload on them at such a young age. Personally I all for it, to an extent. As long as we don't overload the children with excessive responsibilities. Now that we've heard my opinion lets review some facts on the issue, and other arguments.

 By definition Basic Reasoning skills are those processes basic to cognition of all forms. As you have hopefully read in the link above there are some appealing learning outcomes that could come from the teaching of reasoning skills. However what can we as parents do out side of the school environment to help our children develop their reasoning skills? Lets look at the link here! According to PBS we can influence our children's learning dramatically at home.

 I really can't see where there is much argument for the opposition of broadening our children's development with more advanced teaching styles. Therefore, this will be a short post. Ultimately I agree with the introduction and teaching of reasoning skills to our children. Perhaps we should also take a closer look at the Montessori approach as well, this approach is a more natural approach that uses the teachers as facilitators instead of teachers. In the future that we are currently heading towards with evolution going to the technical age, we should be looking at ways to advance our children's ;earning in order to meet the challenges for which we have left them.