But logic would be good because it forms the roots of actual philosophy, with a good foundation of logic you can figure the rest of the shit out. And logic isn't open to interpretation, no matter how biased the teacher.
It's absolutely fucking criminal how completely
THE WELL BALANCED AND GENERAL PURPOSE CURRICULUM bypasses formal logic of any kind, which are the only mechanism by which you can argue a well-developed truth. You learn math absent its meaning and science absent its soul.
Platonic knee-jerk hatred for anything with Aristotle's name on it also seems to be responsible for a modern education failing to effectively deliver rhetoric and the elements of circumstances (who, what, where, when, why, and how) to young audiences. These things seem to me to be the single means by which an unclever person can teach themself to be clever, but now we have a generation of wildly intelligent people with the mental agility of a crippled hippo and people sit and wonder why the modern man doesn't seem nearly so clever as the old.
The Greeks are a case study in this, since they in all likelihood were
not magical superhumans with a bajillion IQ, but instead that it was every bit as under-par and poorly-fed as the rest of the planet was at the time. I would argue that their significant head-start was because they stumbled on a bunch of tools that could prepare and engage their brain in meaningful ways, ways that could help bypass the intrinsic biological limitations of their epigenetically underdeveloped brains more thoroughly than the tools of their contemporaries.
edit: Also the answer was no, we don't have shit as simple as the universe figured out, how the fuck are we going to karyotype an absolute monster like culture? It's a waste of good minds and good money that has consistently fought against QOL gains made by Capitalism, been abused by particularly malicious sorts to push agendas, or otherwise left everyone involved in shambles because of overly ambitious predictions and conclusions. That's not to say it has done no good, but rather that the small fractions of that branch of science that do good are so thoroughly outnumbered by the ones that do no good at all.
The human race survived the 20th century desperately fighting off "central planning for the sake of central planning" and the human race should have thought better than to try making a science of "central planning for the sake of central planning" after all that.
