many activities promote mental maturity just as well as chess does children who neither play chess nor study science are mentally immature children should be taught to play chess chess is socially valuable and science is not
Talbert: Chess is beneficial for school-age children. It is enjoyable, encourages foresight and logical thinking, and discourages carelessness, inattention, and impulsiveness. In short, it promotes mental maturity. Sklar: My objection to teaching chess to children is that it diverts mental activity from something with societal value, such as science, into something that has no societal value.
Talbert's and Sklar's statements provide the strongest support for holding that they disagree with each other over whether