Conversations with Marsha: Video Games and the Mind
Marsha interviews Jordan Zimmerman, and Mike Shapiro, who speak to their experience as gamers and how gaming significantly boosted their professional success and intellectual growth. They also consider what cognitive, social, and other skills and knowledge can be learned from playing videogames. Jordan never went to college but is a distributed systems and cloud developer. […]
Conversations with Marsha: Mikkel Thorup on Growing Up In Canada’s Public School System
In this conversation, Marsha interviews Mikkel Thorup about his experience in Canada’s public school system. Mikkel relays the harrowing, painful moments which led him to leave Canada and vigorously pursue the life of his dreams. Today, Mikkel is the director at EscapeArtist.com and hosts the Expat Money Show. ???????? ?????: Escape Artist – EscapeArtist.comThe Expat […]
Why You Shouldn’t Feel Guilty About Hating Lectures
A long school career of lectures, drills, memorization, and teaching methods out of tune with learning needs usually turns most students away from enthusiastic learning at school. They are only too often motivated mainly by external rewards of grades, adult approval, superior social position and the acquisition of credentials. Yet, internal motivation and a driving […]
Conversations with Marsha: How the Great Connections Can Help You
In this third episode, Marsha visits with chemical engineer and musician Lucy Hair, mother of one of the first students who attended the Great Connections Summer seminar, sponsored by The Reason, Individualism, Freedom Institute (RIFI). A wide-ranging dialogue about how to choose a career, the life-changing effects of The Great Connections program on her son, and […]
Conversations with Marsha: Dick Bishirjian on the Future of Online Education
Dick Bishirjian, head of the American Academy of Distance learning, http://www.academydl.com, was Founding President of one of the first online universities,Yorktown University from 2000-2016. Before that, he was a professor of politics at the University of Dallas and elsewhere, and in the NEH under the Reagan administration. In this free-wheeling conversation, Dr. Bishirjian outlines the […]
Conversations With Marsha: How to Improve Education
Marsha Enright, Founder and Director of The Great Connections Seminars of the RIF Institute, will host periodic conversations around contemporary topics, especially related to education, philosophy, and the role of government. In this first conversation, Marsha visits with Michael Strong, a highly respected educational entrepreneur, founder of multiple high schools, private and charter, in California, Texas, New […]
The Creative Destruction of COVID-19: How Higher Education Will Change For the Better
Marsha Familaro Enright gives young people a lot to chew on as they prepare college plans for a future that is decidedly much less certain, where conventional wisdom may not provide the best path
The Great Connections Winter Programs and the Mannkal Economic Education Foundation
View of Chicago from the Aon Building on East Randolph; NBC pyramid tower in the forefront, Marina City as cylindrical buildings, and Trump Tower the large skyscraper to the right. Kade Stone, Amelia Channer-Holmes and Damon Miles of the Mannkal Economic Education Foundation We’ve been busy! We worked with delightful sets of students on two […]
Montessori, Liberty, & Late Bloomers
MONTESSORI AND LIBERTY What’s the best way to teach and learn the ideas, values, and virtues needed in a free society? Is it enough to lecture and write about them? Those have been the favored methods used by free society advocates for decades. But actions speak louder than words – there is strong evidence that […]
Do Top Colleges Matter for Lifetime Success?
Thousands scramble to get into the Ivy League, Stanford, University of Chicago, and every other school considered elite. Is that the best strategy for picking a college? In “The Right Way to Choose A College, “ Stanford researcher Denise Pope discusses the overwhelming evidence that student engagement is fundamental to college—and life—success. “Engagement” is the […]
