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 […]
Poor Preparation for College
It is truly unfortunate that so many parents buy into the myth that they have to start “preparing” their children to get into the “best” colleges when they’re in kindergarten. Here’s a report from the newly created Let Grow blog about a New York City school that cancelled its end of the year kindergarten show […]
How Is Bike Riding Like College?
You might have seen the increasing number of articles discussing the fact that a college degree doesn’t prepare students with the skills to be successful in life, and many more companies which are now abolishing their degree requirements because a degree is no longer a reliable signal that a job candidate has the skills and […]
Tuition Skyrockets As You Make More Money
Alex Tabarrok at the Marginal Revolution blog analyses the huge price disparities in tuition for people of different income brackets here. This reduces income inequality and opportunity, but it punishes the incentive to work and those having more children. “At many private colleges and universities it is not unusual for some students to be paying $70,000 […]
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 […]
The Great Connections Newsletter May 2018
What’s Happening with the Gap Year Program We’re going to open The Great Connections Gap Year Program in the fall of 2019! We’re expanding our powerful Great Connections Seminars into a full school year for high school graduates and those who are seeking to clarify and determine their path in life–before they risk a hundred thousand dollars […]
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.