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 […]
New Books Worth Reading
I recently read two contemporary books which each offered uniquely enjoyable and inspiring experiences, and learned of a third I want to read! The first is Sophie by Tal Tsfany. It’s a children’s/young adult tale of a young teenage refugee from war-torn Syria and how she navigates her difficult life-problems in a U.S. small town […]
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. […]
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 […]
