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? […]
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 […]
Scandals and Blueprints
A NEW SCANDAL – OR NOT? Isn’t the admissions scandal just a new variation on a long time practice of the universities? Wealthy, legacy children have gained entrance to the Ivy Leagues and other top schools since the 19th century, despite lack of qualifications. The difference here: the wealthy families in this current scandal don’t […]
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 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, […]
Learn about the collectivist control of education
Bending children to the needs of the state goes back much farther than Common Core. Hear about the failure of public education to teach most of its students — since its inception in Massachusetts in the early 19th century. What kind of education fosters the habits and virtues needed for in a free society, where […]
Do We Need the Department of Education?
In the latest edition of Hillsdale College’s Imprimis, Charles Murray recently wrote an excellent piece entitled “Do We Need the Department of Education?” adapted from a 2011 speech of his. He notes that the U.S. Department of Education didn’t come into being until 1980, but large-scale involvement of the federal government in education dates from 1965. In this piece he […]
What Education Could Be Like in a Free Society
We’re pleased to announce that on Sunday, February 28, 2016, Great Connections Founder and President Marsha Familaro Enright will be guest lecturing at The Maryland Objectivist Society on “The Collectivist Control of Education and What Education Could Be Like in a Free Society.” Her talk coincides with the International Students for Liberty Conference (ISFLC) in Washington, D.C., […]
