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where i am, the united states, serious analysis of philosophy and ethics doesn't enter your curriculum until you are in college and studying either at a liberal arts school where even the engineers have to study the humanities, or you are majoring in one of the liberal arts. so i'm a little jealous of your outlook right now ๐
that's where our status comes from teaching history majors math: it's their first time learning it many times even though many places algebra was covered in middle school. our primary educations don't start until adulthood here and we're constantly behind, and those critical thinking courses are elective with it being totally fine to drop out of highschool up to 6 years before you ever would have been expected to be exposed to it.
and as long as that's possible in one county, it's possible in any country. our oppressors want us stupid, so talk to a kid today about identifying how someone else is justifying what right and wrong is today!