The fact that I have scanned these newsletters onto the web does not imply that I endorse the viewpoints and opinions contained therein. Homeschool Media Network Home Listen to Homeschool Conference Click here for play list and additional information . We have learned that, in order to talk to people about the destructive effects of current educational practices, we had to develop a system for qualifying our readers.
Any good salesperson knows the importance of qualifying a buyer before trying to sell a product.
He must find out if the customer is interested in buying a stereo or if the customer is just browsing. The salesman must find out how much the customer wants to spend. He must then determine what kind of stereo system that customer needs, which involves finding out something about the size and shape of the space in which the stereo system will be used. If the salesman does not qualify each buyer, he runs the risk of giving the customer useless, irrelevant and confusing information, and he wastes his own resources in the process of doing so. We discovered early on that some of our readers believe that there is nothing at all wrong with the existing educational system.