- Time
- ~10 hrs · 4 weeks
- Earns
- Certificate of Foundation
Dare to know.
Learn to reason.
A debate-first school that doesn’t hand you conclusions to memorise. It trains you to think. Steelman the strongest case against you, find the load-bearing premise, and answer with precision. From first questions to the public stage.
You don’t understand a view until you can argue it well.
Most introductions to atheism give you a list of arguments and rebuttals. Ilu’s School inverts that. Content is the raw material; the skill is the product.
You’ll learn to reconstruct an opponent’s argument in its most charitable form, locate its true load-bearing premise, and respond with logic rather than slogans, making you harder to fool, slower to strawman, and more persuasive precisely because you argue fairly.
From first light to illumination
Each level pairs a body of knowledge with a debate-and-rhetoric thread, deliberate practice, and a graded task that earns a verifiable credential.
- Time
- ~18 hrs · 6 weeks
- Earns
- Certificate of Argumentation
- Time
- ~30 hrs · 10 weeks
- Earns
- Advanced Cert. + Master Diploma
Learn → Drill → Spar → Reflect
Every lesson cycles you through four phases. Read the idea, drill the micro-skill in isolation, apply it under pressure against a peer, then review against a rubric.
Learn
Short readings, narrated video, and primary-source excerpts with inline notes.
Drill
Fallacy spotting, argument mapping, and spaced-repetition recall, practised in isolation.
Spar
Structured exchanges against a peer or mentor in the Debate Arena and Socratic Circles.
Reflect
Rubric-based feedback, a recording to review, and a six-dimension skill radar.
Built for argument, not just video
Argument Lab →
Test whether an argument is valid: read the premises and conclusion, then judge it, with the reasoning revealed.
Fallacy Trainer →
Spot-the-fallacy drills from real arguments: 20 scenarios, served at random on your dashboard.
Debate Arena →
Timed debates against the bot: pick a side, argue opening, cross-examination, and closing, then get scored.
Flashcards →
Every key term from the curriculum, turned into flip-cards. Shuffle the deck and test your recall.
Socratic Questions →
Pressure-test your own position: a claim, then a chain of Socratic probes that ask you to defend it honestly.
Skill Radar →
Logic, Evidence, Rebuttal, Charity, Rhetoric & Composure, visualised so you always know what to sharpen.
Three levels, one discipline of reasoning
The tracks are cumulative: the Intermediate level assumes the logical toolkit built in the Beginner level, and the Expert level assumes fluency in the arguments mastered before it. Click any lesson to open it.
Welcome back, scholar
Pick up where you left off, run today’s drill, and watch your six competencies grow.
Continue learning
Level progress
Skill radar
Daily drill: name the fallacy
Argument Lab
Is the argument valid: does the conclusion follow from the premises? (Ignore whether the premises are actually true.)
Flashcards
Key terms from across the curriculum. Tap the card to flip.
Socratic Questions
Hold a position, then answer each probe honestly. Find the weak joint in your own view.
Badges
Where you sharpen against real minds
Take a side, keep a flow sheet, and let the rubric decide. Ranked sparring adjusts your ELO; every match is recorded for review.
“The problem of evil makes an all-good, all-powerful God improbable.”
Your debate record
Students & curriculum
See who's enrolled and how far they've come, then shape the curriculum they learn from.
Enrollment & Progress
Curriculum Studio
Add a module
Create a new module in any level. The Essentials track is open to everyone with no prerequisites, a good home for primers and free content.
Edit level titles
Rename any level. The new title appears across the curriculum, dashboard, lesson player, and home page.
Add a new lesson
Appends a lesson into an existing module.
Create a user account
Creates a local (email/password) account. A temporary password is generated and a setup email is sent to the user so they can confirm and set their own password.
Account access
Accounts lock automatically after 5 failed sign-in attempts. Lock or unlock an account here, and trigger a password reset (the user receives an email to set a new password).
All lessons
Certificate of Completion
Awarded for completing all three levels: First Light, The Crucible & Illumination. Your certificate can be downloaded as a PDF once every level is complete.
Credential verified
Issued by Ilu’s School of Thoughts on 14 May 2026. Signature valid. This credential has not been revoked.
ID ISOT-L1-2026-7F3A9C · verify.iluschool.example/7F3A9C
Your circle
Find fellow students, send a request, and challenge a friend to a live debate judged by the school’s AI adjudicator.
Find people
Search the school directory by name.
Your friends
Argue live — the AI decides
Challenge a friend to a real-time, three-phase debate. When the closing bell rings, Claude reads both cases and delivers the verdict.
Challenge a friend
Pick a friend, choose a motion and your side, then send the challenge. They join from their own Live Debate page.