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 […]
Wanted: Art to Celebrate Achievements
Riace Warrior A THE RIACE BRONZES AND THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF CAPITALISM BY MARSHA FAMILARO ENRIGHT I have loved the sculpture of the ancient Greeks since I first saw it in a book, at the age of 12. That’s when I read the Greek myths and knew I had found my religion. The worship of Man. […]
Is Education In the Far East What It’s Cracked Up To Be?
I’ve spent most of my adult life examining the deficits of US education and tenure is one of the strong nails securing its coffin, as reported in The Heartland Institute blog: “In many districts, simply recommending a tenured teacher for dismissal takes at least two years because the district must document both the teacher’s weak […]
Sanitizing a Classic
Sunny Arbarbanelli alerted me to the latest perversion of current culture: a version of Mark Twain’s famous anti-racism classic, Huckleberry Finn, in which offensive words have been replaced to make the work more “palatable” to current students. The BBC report says: “‘The book is an anti-racist book and to change the language changes the power […]
The Classroom Is No Joke Anymore
At this link you can read about how a beloved teacher of 34 years at the Quaker School in Manhattan was sacked over a truly silly, situational Hitler joke. Unfortunately, only too many “well-educated” people not only go along with this kind of destructive nonsense out of fear, but become the enforcers to prove their […]
Intellectual Humility and an Open Mind
Open Minds? When I celebrate Thanksgiving, I always think of the intrepid travelers (pictured above) who came to the northeast of the New World in the month of November, for gosh sakes, of 1620. They were pious dissenting Protestants, and they came for intellectual freedom. But what they weren’t was intellectually humble. What I mean […]
What is “Enlightenment” Thought?
With recent books and articles being published on the Enlightenment, Iona Italia does a great job of providing us with a short primer on Enlightenment thought. “We are in many ways the inheritors of the Enlightenment. But its opponents are legion. We have the proponents of identity politics, for whom the truth of what you say is less […]
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 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 […]
