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Posted by Tina in Ouray on 15:16 May 2
In Reply to: One other question--is this something dd would do independently or that I need to teach? nt posted by Karin
"Traditional Logic" is something that many students can do independently. The chapters are fairly self-explanatory and the exercises are just extensions of the material that is covered in them.
However, I recommend that you at least learn the material along with your student, even if you aren't actively teaching it. Your student will occasionally need help seeing something that they just can't see. If you aren't following along in learning the material, you won't be able the explain the answers to your student. (Of course, you can always ask a question here, too.)
But the more important reason for you to learn formal logic along with your student is that you, as their primary tutor, want to be able to help them to apply the kind of thinking and kind of analysis that they are learning to everything else that they learn and do. Most young students will NOT be able to do this on their own. It takes a lot of conscious effort to build upon and reinforce the concepts taught in formal logic. Without this kind of follow-up, a logic course too often becomes just one more box to check off on a transcript. And that isn't (or shouldn't be) the point.
Tina in Ouray, CO