Is it true philosophy teaches you how to think?
Posted: 27 Jan 2026, 03:43
I was in HS and it was told to us that philosophy makes us superhuman, and studying latin makes us upper tier able to think better than the plebs and our greek education gives us superior standing in society.
Is it really true? I didnt find it to be true at all.
But I found a ton of people believe it to be true, especially women. I didnt believe it. Especially because I seen the teacher for the history of philosophy course repeating word by word advertisement from apple. One day he came into the classroom with his new iphone. And since I know what is the monthly salary of teachers I already knew he must have got it used, or pays monthly quotas or got it sacrificing half his salary or more.
And he was convinced apple is "superior". He also repeated the words from advertisement "if you dont have an apple, you dont have an apple". The same professor also purchased supplements from the local gym instructor. Seemed to me he was completely unable to think critically.
Instead when I was 15 I was already reading pubmed, and I was loudly contesting the claims of the supplements sellers because maybe I have read a placebo study or something. And I didnt believe anything from apple. But I didnt have any title in philosophy and in the future I didnt go study it in university.
I would love to see if this HS professor of mine got a clotshot or not. Luckily I didnt have to suffer his normie existence after got out of HS, but out of curiosity I would want to see whats up with his convid beliefs. All I can say is I didnt believe any of the propaganda, lets see how he compares to my critical reasoning lets see if his study of philosophy made him any better than I am.
As for latin and greek do they make you smarter? Well, yeah maybe. If you study a language, any language, your mind expands. Its normal. You may also experience a vision boost. Because your brain will learn new words and your eyes will see new colors or see "more" for some reason. So its not a feature of latin specifically. Maybe Greek does teaches "how to think" and is no coincidence was able to generate such important philosophy but let me assure you it has no effect on a normie mind.
Is it really true? I didnt find it to be true at all.
But I found a ton of people believe it to be true, especially women. I didnt believe it. Especially because I seen the teacher for the history of philosophy course repeating word by word advertisement from apple. One day he came into the classroom with his new iphone. And since I know what is the monthly salary of teachers I already knew he must have got it used, or pays monthly quotas or got it sacrificing half his salary or more.
And he was convinced apple is "superior". He also repeated the words from advertisement "if you dont have an apple, you dont have an apple". The same professor also purchased supplements from the local gym instructor. Seemed to me he was completely unable to think critically.
Instead when I was 15 I was already reading pubmed, and I was loudly contesting the claims of the supplements sellers because maybe I have read a placebo study or something. And I didnt believe anything from apple. But I didnt have any title in philosophy and in the future I didnt go study it in university.
I would love to see if this HS professor of mine got a clotshot or not. Luckily I didnt have to suffer his normie existence after got out of HS, but out of curiosity I would want to see whats up with his convid beliefs. All I can say is I didnt believe any of the propaganda, lets see how he compares to my critical reasoning lets see if his study of philosophy made him any better than I am.
As for latin and greek do they make you smarter? Well, yeah maybe. If you study a language, any language, your mind expands. Its normal. You may also experience a vision boost. Because your brain will learn new words and your eyes will see new colors or see "more" for some reason. So its not a feature of latin specifically. Maybe Greek does teaches "how to think" and is no coincidence was able to generate such important philosophy but let me assure you it has no effect on a normie mind.