{"id":2781,"date":"2009-06-13T03:00:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T08:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2009-06-13T03:00:03","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T08:00:03","slug":"lets-teach-adults-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2781","title":{"rendered":"Let&#039;s Teach Adults, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.figarospeech.com\/teach-a-kid-to-argue\/\">How to Teach a Child to Argue<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>And let\u2019s face it: Our culture has lost the ability to usefully disagree.<\/strong> Most Americans seem to avoid argument. But this has produced passive aggression and groupthink in the office, red and blue states, and families unable to discuss things as simple as what to watch on television. Rhetoric doesn\u2019t turn kids into back-sassers; it makes them think about other points of view.<\/p>\n<p>I had long equated arguing with fighting, but in rhetoric they are very different things. <strong>An argument is good; a fight is not.<\/strong> Whereas the goal of a fight is to dominate your opponent, in an argument you succeed when you bring your audience over to your side. A dispute over territory in the backseat of a car qualifies as an argument, for example, in the unlikely event that one child attempts to <em>persuade<\/em> his audience rather than slug it. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Teaching kids how to argue properly presumes that the parents know how to argue, which I don&#8217;t think is generally the case.  But that&#8217;s a rant for another post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Teach a Child to Argue And let\u2019s face it: Our culture has lost the ability to usefully disagree. Most Americans seem to avoid argument. But this has produced passive aggression and groupthink in the office, red and blue &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2781\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,40,46,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-politics","category-science-general","category-science-y-observation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}