By Jon Rappoport

 MARCH 24, 2010.  I have been a supporter of home schooling for many years.  There is one overriding reason: the quality of the education can exceed, in many cases, what is offered in public or private schools.

There are, of course, other reasons.  For example, parents who are dedicated to educating their own children will take part in a great adventure.  Although the experience will present many challenges and struggles, the potential rewards are enormous on several levels.

With all this in mind, I am offering certain advanced courses to home-schooling parents.

These well-shaped courses will present vital material on the art and skill of LOGIC.

In most schools, the subject of logic has been lost.  Therefore, the ability to analyze written and spoken material has faded into obscurity.

If you are a parent who home schools your children, or if you know such parents, feel free to contact me at: qjrconsulting@gmail.com

During my 20-plus years as a reporter, I’ve run into hundreds and hundreds of claims in which evidence has been lacking.  I’m talking about vague, partial, and fragmentary evidence being accepted as complete.

To put it another way, people argue for a particular position, and in support of that position, they offer proof which isn’t really proof.

When you understand and can apply logic, you see through this false proof quickly.

Once upon a time, there were textbooks which listed 15 or 20 traditional logical fallacies, and students were taught how to spot those fallacies in any argument or presentation.  Such students became very confident in their own analytical skills.

However, as public education descended into a stagnant pool of political correctness, fraudulent graduation rates, and “new values,” logic was diluted and discarded.  It was considered an enemy of preferred group-think. 

In addition to this disintegration, many bright students (more than ever) were being drawn into law schools, where they learned that any side of any issue could be compellingly argued—by the practice of twisting logic into knots.

When I was a college student, I was lucky to study under a professor who taught very rigorous courses in logic.  I found myself in possession of tools I could use in any course. 

I’ve now developed materials that are effective for teaching logic and analysis.  These courses do not challenge faith or personal conviction.  They are designed to enable a bright student to take apart a written text, an argument, a visual presentation—and discover whether it is valid, whether it truly makes sense, whether it has holes in it. 

These courses teach the traditional logical fallacies, offer many sample passages and exercises, quizzes, tests, and simple teacher’s manuals and daily lesson plans.

I am pricing these courses so they don’t destroy family budgets.  I have seen other people offering school courses that are amazingly expensive.  I undercut those levels by a wide margin.

Let’s face it.  We are living in a world where the notion of individual freedom and power are under attack.  Sustaining that freedom involves knowing how to deal with propaganda designed to make us into confused collectivists.  When young people possess the know-how and the confidence to see through these shams, they are equipped to succeed.

Again, feel free to contact me at qjrconsulting@gmail.com

JON RAPPOPORT