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On the other hand, some fallacies recur much, much more often.
Ad hominem and appeal to authority are de facto THE way humans argue with each other, with strawmanning as a very strong third. So at least learning how to spot and correct those can alone improve someone rationality.
There are though much funnier ways to learn about fallacies, Biased Pandemic being one of my favourite.
Biased Pandemic is about learning about cognitive biases. Cognitive biases are different from logical fallacies.
Yes, in the sense that cognitive bias are a subset of logical fallacies systematically applied by our brain. So I maybe can refine my answer: is it worth to teach about logical fallacies? Yes, especially when they become cognitive bias. A fun way to do this is Biased Pandemics.
Many cognitive biases don't have much to do with logic as humans generally don't make decisions via logic.