Natural language reasoning skills are more important than ever, since the relatively recent explosion of “firmware hacks” into people’s brains using natural language as an attack vector.

People get a math education so that they can’t be fooled by an otherwise reasonable-sounding proof that 1=2. I don’t know if philosophy is the answer, but people need to get a reasoning education as well so that they aren’t susceptible to a “proof” that [politician] is “fake news.”