What A Graduate Student Gained From Great Connections
Graduate student in economics, Mackenzie White, discusses how Great Connections reignited her interest in learning.
The Brightest Students Don’t Get Enough Attention
A new longitudinal study of 5,000 mathematically precocious children concludes — as I’ve long thought — that very smart students do not get enough attention in school. This is one of the Great Connections’ purposes — to provide exceptional learning to exceptional young people, whomever they may be. What happened to “equality” for them? The equality warriors’ bottom line is […]
Dynamic Board Members Join Great Connections
The Great Connections is excited to announce the enhancement of its higher education work by the addition of James Kandrac and Sable Levy to its Board of Trustees, and Malachy Walsh and Mimi Gladstein to its Advisory Board as part of its plan to expand to a new, 9-month Gap Year program. Board of Trustees Jim Kandrac, founder and CEO of UCG Technologies, has helped […]
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 […]
Report on Great Connections 2016
Editor’s Note: This is the text of a report to donors on the 2016 Great Connections Seminar. This July, our high school and graduate school students hailed from places such as Guatemala, Argentina, Brazil, Honduras, Nepal and all directions of the U.S. Over half were returnees who paid their own way—one from Buenos Aires. Six came to […]
Employers Find Reasoning In Short Supply
“Companies across the U.S. say it is becoming increasingly difficult to find applicants who can communicate clearly, take initiative, problem-solve and get along with co- workers,” reports the Wall Street Journal. Those traits, often called soft skills, can make the difference between a standout employee and one who just gets by. While such skills have always appealed […]
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 […]