Here's something from my notes on this topic, but the implications of this go infinitely further.

Really, wasn't this civilization basically built upon philosophy? Can civilization continue to exist without teaching philosophy from a young age? In about the 1930's though, between the demonstration of the power and the wealth creation of science, demonstrated by the industrial revolution and WWI, as well as the 1925 Scopes Trial, science pretty decisively won the ancient war between science and religion. Philosophy was a casualty. Science claimed that philosophy was obsolete but there are many things that science cannot answer, such as human purpose. Science is great, but philosophy provides more useful personal understanding than science. Science can never explain why. It's not just about knowledge. Training in these basic philosophical principles trains moral instincts and that is critical. ... Moral instincts give support for our values, our goals and even for our very sanity.

For our nation to survive, for our civilization to survive, we must teach basic philosophy at a young age.

And there is the problem, science has crowded out philosophy. Heck, it crowded out everything not STEM. We don't teach home economics, civics, manual arts or a bunch of other basic skills of living any more. Now don't get me wrong. I know too much science for my own good and bumping it's limits was what got me to look at philosophy. I found a 1920 grammar school curriculum that included philosophy. The Civil War letters were full of philosophy. I wondered when that ended. It was the 1930's. We absolutely need that back ...