Can Education Teach People to See Their Own Biases?

Whenever I speak, write, or blog (especially blog) about reasoning biases, there's a common rejoinder. Can't we use better education to teach people to see past their own blinders? While I think some kinds of advanced training are indeed about bias control--good journalism, science--in general I'm skeptical that one can make much headway at this in the basic educational system. The reason is that the biases are activated automatically, pre-conscious thought. Indeed, there is published research showing that getting older and more educated doesn't curtail reasoning biases, and also that we see contradictions and hypocrisy in those we disagree with, not those we agree with. Yet the plea for better education still persists. Frankly, I chalk the resistance up to that old "Enlightenment ethic" (if only we could make people better educated and get them better information) that is very very hard to dislodge, even when one is citing science ...