The Great Connections is Everywhere! Podcast Interview, Radio Interview, WFMT and Real Clear Markets
Lennie Jarratt Interviews Marsha Familaro Enright How The Great Connections Leap Year Helps Build A Free Society You can hear me describe how we prepare young people to live as free, independent individuals in our Leap Year gap program — and why that’s so crucial especially today. Capitalism Vs. Socialism: Where’s the Good and Evil? […]
Tuition Skyrockets As You Make More Money
Alex Tabarrok at the Marginal Revolution blog analyses the huge price disparities in tuition for people of different income brackets here. This reduces income inequality and opportunity, but it punishes the incentive to work and those having more children. “At many private colleges and universities it is not unusual for some students to be paying $70,000 […]
Shocking Growth of College Tuition
Only hospital service prices grew more than college tuition between 1997 and 2017 on this American Enterprise Institute chart. In contrast, prices for cell phones, cars and TVs plummeted. Many people by now understand that government loans are the main culprit in tuition inflation. See Forbes’ Federal Financial Aid Is The Real Reason College Costs Too Much. Professor Richard […]
Founder to Speak on Education Reform
On January 24, 2016, Great Connections Founder and President Marsha Familaro Enright presented a guest lecture on “The Collectivist Control of Education and What Education Could Look Like in a Free Society” at the Atlanta Objectivist Society. To the packed room of people concerned about the destructive direction of education, Ms. Enright’s presentation generated a stream of […]
Would All Children Be Educated in a Free Market?
Here’s another 5-minute clip from Kirsten Lombard, editor of Resounding Books, in which she and I talk about whether all children could be educated if there were no public schools, and how that might happen. Common Ground on Common Core, published by Resounding Books, is a collection of 17 essays from across the political spectrum, analyzing this […]
