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 […]
Rise of the Classics
The Classics, or Great Books—weren’t they the dreck of dead white males? In the past few years, many have discovered otherwise and now there’s astonishing growth in the programs using these books as their basic texts. Apparently, many have discovered what Goethe said two centuries ago: “Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a […]
The Great Connections Methodology
Great Connections Facilitators Marsha Familaro Enright and Andrew Humphries describe why the Great Connections methodology works so well.
The Great Connections’ Great Advantages
Ryan Griggs, details how students gain reasoning skills, self-confidence, and autonomy from The Great Connections Summer Program. Ryan earned his Bachelors’ and Masters’ degrees in economics and is completing work on his PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics. He also serves as a wealth strategist for his own business: Fortune Paradigm.
What A Graduate Student Gained From Great Connections
Graduate student in economics, Mackenzie White, discusses how Great Connections reignited her interest in learning.
The Brightest Students Don’t Get Enough Attention
A new longitudinal study of 5,000 mathematically precocious children concludes — as I’ve long thought — that very smart students do not get enough attention in school. This is one of the Great Connections’ purposes — to provide exceptional learning to exceptional young people, whomever they may be. What happened to “equality” for them? The equality warriors’ bottom line is […]
Dynamic Board Members Join Great Connections
The Great Connections is excited to announce the enhancement of its higher education work by the addition of James Kandrac and Sable Levy to its Board of Trustees, and Malachy Walsh and Mimi Gladstein to its Advisory Board as part of its plan to expand to a new, 9-month Gap Year program. Board of Trustees Jim Kandrac, founder and CEO of UCG Technologies, has helped […]
The Transformative Experience of Great Connections
In this eight-minute interview, hear founder Marsha Familaro Enright explain the transformative elements of The Great Connections Seminar, which radically increases autonomy, self-confidence, and knowledge by strengthening first-hand judgment. The interview was conducted by Kirsten Lombard (Resounding Books). The two women also discuss how the program’s methodology is being leveraged by Argentinians to effect free-society […]
Middlebury Students Use the Brownshirts’ Playbook
Make no mistake about it: the New Left has unleashed their minions on free speech via Nazi Brownshirt tactics and Middlebury College is a recent arena for them. The New Left failed to take control of U.S. culture directly via the government, so instead they taught thousands of college students at the “best” colleges that force is […]
Does Mathematics Advance White Privilege?
University of Illinois professor Rochelle Guitierrez complains that the phrase “Pythagorean Theorem” and the cultural emphasis on math prejudices mathematics against non-white students. I guess she thinks these students aren’t human! Mathematical reasoning is a unique function of the human mind. But, it figures, since the anti-reason social justice ideology sees all humans as fractured into physical and social groups, […]
