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Course Description
Every young mind carries questions—about life, purpose, reality, and truth. In a world of abundant information but little direction, curiosity can become confusion. Engaging Curious Minds (ECM) is a carefully structured course designed to guide students on a reflective journey through their questions and the knowledge sources that claim to answer them.
ECM cultivates the intellectual habits and inquiry frameworks that preemptively strengthen the mind. The course begins with engaging students’ own questions, then prioritizes the most meaningful ones, and finally explores five key sources of knowledge — logic, science, philosophy, history, and religion — through dedicated modules.
The course aims to build a coherent perspective on truth-seeking, helping youth construct an intellectually grounded worldview before confusion or doubt takes root.
Course Objectives & Outcomes
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Understand the importance of meaningful questioning and the criteria for evaluating questions.
- Explore the strengths and limits of key knowledge sources: logic, science, philosophy, history, and religion.
- Develop a structured, balanced approach to exploring truth and forming a coherent worldview.
- Connect right questions with right sources by evaluating scope and authenticity of sources of knowledge — science, logic, philosophy, history & religion — in answering important questions.
Weekly Plan
Right Answers and Right Sources
By the end of the module the participants would be able to:
- Prioritize personal questions based on relevance, impact, and universality.
- Understand the relationship between the nature of a question and the source of its answer.
- Distinguish between sources & channels of knowledge.
- Develop a personal question bank and begin mapping sources.
Questions and Logic
By the end of the module the participants would be able to:
- Understand the scope and role of logic in answering abstract and foundational questions.
- Learn basic logical principles (e.g., law of non-contradiction, cause and effect).
- Apply logic to simple existential and metaphysical questions.
- Realize the role of reason in grounding belief and knowledge.
Questions and Science
By the end of the module the participants would be able to:
- Understand the method and scope of scientific inquiry.
- Explore the story of science’s nature, scope & evolution.
- Distinguish between scientific knowledge and scientism.
- Identify what types of questions science can and cannot answer.
Questions and Philosophy
By the end of the module the participants would be able to:
- Learn the purpose and key branches of philosophy.
- Explore how different philosophical approaches tackle ethical and metaphysical questions.
- Evaluate how philosophy attempts to answer moral dilemmas.
- Recognize the diversity of philosophical ethical principles.
Questions and Religion (I)
By the end of the module the participants would be able to:
- Explore religion as a source of knowledge.
- Examine core principles of religion.
- Evaluate different proofs of God.
Questions and Religion (II)
By the end of the module the participants would be able to:
- How to establish the authenticity of a religion/prophethood.
- Understand common elements in religious traditions (belief in the unseen, revelation, community).
- Reflect on how religion responds to existential questions (meaning, morality, death, purpose).
- Appreciate religion’s unique scope in combining logic, experience, and authority.
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