Teaching Thinking

From Thinking Like a Laywer. I’d say this is a fairly accurate description of how domain-specific thinking and reasoning is taught in K-12 public schools also—by osmosis:

In the typical law school, especially in the United States, the faculty believes that it teaches legal thinking and reasoning by osmosis, or interstitially, in the process of providing instruction in substantive subjects such as torts, contracts, criminal law, property, civil procedure, and constitutional law. But less teaching of legal thinking and reasoning actually occurs than faculties typically believe.