Are Talmudic students superior reasoners as a result of the massive effort and time devoted to Talmudic training? To study this question, two tenth and two seventh grade groups, one each from the Hebrew parochial schools and public schools, were compared on 6 reasoning tests. As both parochial groups were significantly superior, it was concluded that Talmudic methodology may permeate the complete Hebrew parochial school, that syllogistic and inductive techniques may be taught without formal study of the Talmud.
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