Macron urged to think again about philosophy downgrade in Baccalauréat

[BidenPresident]

Under a reform introduced by President Macron’s government, the philosophy paper counts for between 4 and 8 per cent of the overall Baccalauréat mark, compared with up to 18 per cent until 2020.

Philosophy has been included in the Baccalauréat ever since the examination was created by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1808. Pupils were tested orally on their philosophical capacities until 1860, at which point the subject became a written paper that has traditionally been seen as a marker of French intellectual aspirations.

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[Cypress]

Philosophy, logic, rhetoric are almost considered Medieval disciplines at this point, given the headlong rush into STEM education.

I believe scientists, lawyers, historians could benefit from some academic background in philosophy.

Training in formal logic has almost completely disappeared from secondary education, with the only exception being a watered down version of Euclid's geometry.

 

[BidenPresident]

Philosophy, logic, rhetoric are almost considered Medieval disciplines at this point, given the headlong rush into STEM education.

I believe scientists, lawyers, historians could benefit from some academic background in philosophy.

Training in formal logic has almost completely disappeared from secondary education, with the only exception being a watered down version of Euclid's geometry.

It is worth noting that in very conservative times that philosophy is deemed the enemy.

 

[Cypress]

It is worth noting that in very conservative times that philosophy is deemed the enemy.

Philosophers ask to many questions.

Roman emperors were known to banish and exile philosophers.

The Qin dynasty was notorious for executing the Confucian philosophers by the hundreds.

 

[Cypress]

Einstein said studying philosophy made him a better scientists.

Lincoln said reading Euclid's Element was the best training he could have had to be a lawyer because it taught him logic and deductive reasoning through the use of axioms and theorems.

 

[BidenPresident]

Einstein said studying philosophy made him a better scientists.

Lincoln said reading Euclid's Element was the best training he could have had to be a lawyer because it taught him logic and deductive reasoning through the use of axioms and theorems.

We can't even get the schools to teach critical thinking skills.