Primary students learning to think

Should reasoning skills be taught in primary school? This is a question that is asked far too little. The purpose of a student learning reasoning or critical thinking skills is to better prepare that student for the future and in helping them be able to make wiser choices. The issue is that most students do not begin to learn reasoning skills until they are in high school, and even then students do not start thinking critically until they have reached their second semester of college.
High school students are about the age of fourteen to eighteen. At this age is when students are faced with peer pressure and decisions of the future for example what they want to be when they are adults and what they want for their upcoming future. How are students capable of making these decisions on their own and truly fulfilling their dreams and goals if teachers don’t teach them and help them understand how to process information, reason, enquire, and evaluate their choices?
Various primary schools such as Greens Norton C of E Primary School www.greensnortonshcool.com have based their curriculum around building reasoning and critical thinking skills. Learning reasoning skills at a primary level will only make the choice of that primary student further knowledgeable in the future. When a student that has begun to learn and harness this skill is faced with a decision in middle school that relates to peer pressure that student will be reluctant to follow the leader and say yes. They will think of why they chose to or not to make that decision and the possible outcomes for each situation. There for make them more capable of making the right selection.
In all I think reasoning skills should be taught in primary school. We are faced with decision from the time we are able to crawl, and having the ability to understand why we are thinking what we are thinking only makes us more understanding and knowledgeable of our surroundings and who we are. Starting to learn this skill at an earlier age will only make us better at using it, and propelling us to a higher level of being.