The Cost of Freedom: Why Universities Should Reject Government Funding
Recent government funding freezes show public money risks universities’ autonomy and freedom—here’s why schools should reject it.
AI, Critical Thinking, and Socratic Practice in Higher Education
AI is spreading across academia, and as studies warn of its harm to critical thinking, Reliance College’s Socratic Practice offers a way to restore it.
What Vision Do Young People Need?
Originally published on October 21, 2022 in The American Thinker. Before the devastating psychological effects of the COVID lockdowns, the U.S. faced a frightening rise in drug addiction, with youth suicide becoming the second-leading cause of death among people aged 15–20 in the U.S., and suicide in children quadrupling from 2007 to 2020. What’s behind this alarming trend? Let’s […]
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