Teach children Logic

Most schools do not teach logic, they do not know what it is. You may have a vague idea but are basically in the dark.

The logic was written about in the West, 2400 years ago. Plato and Aristotle were their fathers. It 's a great heritage of Western civilization.

Today, as the public school system is crumbling, we are in the information age. In other words, if we need more logical, because information is an endless sea, trying tomissing tools and influence to convince us we are important.

The logic is a compass. It is a system for navigation. It can be used to separate good from bad information.

Press articles, publishing, public relations announcements, news networks, political discourse, scientific standards, journalism in the Internet is a huge current that keeps going. And at root, is an attempt to fight for certain ideas and positions.

Information is a "war" has brought to our minds and the minds of ourChildren.

We want the young team in a way to judge and evaluate the information may have, or we abandon them and let them drift offshore?

In my 30 years as a freelance journalist, I saw, "the permissive society" take the second solution.

It 'something to give children fail to present the heritage of freedom, it is quite another matter to them the tools to be strong, rational, capable people.

As an investigative journalist, I had to digdeliberate efforts to deceive the American people in science, politics and education. I could do it because many years ago, I studied logic with a wonderful professor. He taught his class how to separate the wheat from the chaff. We were drilled on the basic rules of logic.

Every high school student should be able to read an article and find the logical flaw in it.

All students must be able to describe in detail these shortcomings.

Each student shouldbe able to do the whole number of the article attempts to analyze and if the point is justified or not articulated.

This is the strength. This is the power. This is independence.

The founders of this country to risk their lives to create a nation of freedom of the individual, who see it just go to hell, because children the tools to achieve true independence be denied.

As I said, is the logic of a magnificent heritage of Western civilization. Our schools are only castingLegacy by without thinking twice.

If you have some of the vital American political debates that occurred in the 18th and 19th Century exhibition, such as the Lincoln-Douglas debates, you would see that these politicians expect their audience to follow a logical train of thought.

Logic used to be taught in American schools. It 'was an important part of the curriculum. Not so, not more. Well, we slogans and social engineering and trust "groupthink."

Wereverse this trend. The place to do school at home.

I was pleasantly surprised by the response to my series of articles about school at home and logic surprised. The parents keep in touch with me to say, were waiting for a proper course of logic and analysis. You do not have the material Their children would perform in a real way, hoped, children These Would Be able to come face to non-stop flood of information in their direction.

Why all this interest? And 'because manyHome schoolers want the herd mentality that has become increasingly common in our society to escape.

Here is a quote from a note from a parent sent me:

"I want to be my son and daughter in a position to think for themselves rather than with the group. But I do not want them to become rebel nonsense. You should be able to have patience and take a rational approach to PR and propaganda will be distributed 24 / 7 in the media and the Internet. in simple storageTeaching is important but not enough. "

I have to text passages that are used in public schools have tried to educate students in so-called "critical thinking". What I found is very sad. These points are adjusted. They are carefully designed to be politically correct, the interest for fear of a group or special. In no way resemble the information can be found in the real world.

Way back when I was in high school had a history teacher, he has presented us withPassages written by various socialists. He said: "The way they are only intended to socialism. To read his ideas, I will give you the opportunity and I asked to examine these ideas within a hair of your life. I'll think. I I do not want from that philosophy, or to protect to protect you. If I did, I would be quick changes and your parents pay for your education. "

And we read passages written bySocialists, and when the teacher was with us through, we realized much of philosophy. We see the hidden thought. It could take perverse nature of society, if the Socialists won the war of ideas would have written.

It 'was a very invigorating, and it was my introduction to logic. That teachers knew logic. He showed us a list of traditional logical fallacies, and made us compare this list to what the Socialists have been spoken. We have seensocial manipulation and perversion of logic were to secure their goals.

It was my first impression of the true power inherent in logical analysis, and when I went to college and study logic at a deeper level, I gained even more skill to disassemble and information back together.

This year, when I wrote my logic, of course, home school, I decided to text passages that the material would find a young student approached the Internet on TelevisionNews, press releases in newspapers and politics.

I rejected the idea of presenting a fantasy world of students.

The logic and the foundation of America have much in common. Both prepare a young adulthood in a free and open society. Today the company a further decline in passive collectivism and group think. Therefore, it is more important than ever for children who can use tools to remove and dismantle the false information by force,Intuition and understanding.