What Does Our Future Hold? or You Can’t Fix Stupid
Fairytale of 2011 Once upon a time and in a land not so far away, there was a people who willing made personal economic decisions beyond their income capacity. They borrowed money from lenders for not just houses and cars, but they borrowed money for clothes and vacations, homes far beyond their ability to maintain […]
Liber and Public Virtue – A 4th of July Tribute
I can’t think of a better way to celebrate and memorialize our Independence Day than by introducing you to this excellent and inspiring speech by the best teach and mentor I know, Dr. Oliver DeMille. Happy 4th of July. Liber and Public Virtue By Oliver DeMille A speech delivered by Dr. Oliver DeMille […]
A Model of Leadership Education, Part 6: An Abundance Mentality
This is part 6 of an 8-part article. Read Part 1 Here Read Part 2 Here Read Part 3 Here Read Part 4 Here Read Part 5 Here Building Your Two Towers At regular intervals during undergraduate enrollment, a mentor takes time to talk about the future. What will you be doing after graduation? What […]
A Model of Leadership Education, Part 5: The Proposal
This is part 5 of an 8-part article. Read Part 1 Here Read Part 2 Here Read Part 3 Here Read Part 4 Here The Monticello College Proposal The day will again come when this nation will stand at a vital crossroads, and only statesmen of the caliber of Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln will […]
A Model of Leadership Education, Part 4: The Ideal
This is part 4 of an 8-part article. Read Part 1 Here Read Part 2 Here Read Part 3 Here The Ideal If we are to create the ideal college and offer the much needed Scholar and or Depth Phases to a new generation of American leaders, new foundings are needed. But what is […]
A Model of Leadership Education, Part 3: So What Should it Be?
This is part 3 of an 8-part article. Read Part 1 Here Read Part 2 Here These ideas represent the highest level of the current debate, and while there are some good ideas here, nothing comes close to lasting solutions that will really make the difference. So much for the current generation of deep thinking […]
A Model of Leadership Education, Part 2: Current Trends in Higher Education
This is part 2 of an 8-part article. Read Part 1 Here We are now in the eleventh, or current, generation of American higher learning. Excoriated by Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind and a host of other polemics outlining the decline of higher education, the universities nevertheless flourish in the market-for now. […]
A Model of Leadership Education, Part 1: The State of American Education
Part 1 of an 8-part article. From the beginning of “these United States,” Leadership Education has been the number one resource extolled by the founding generation as a “must have” to continually perpetuate a culture of virtue and build citizens capable of maintaining liberty in the land. From the Northwest Ordinance to individual state […]
Let Us Dare: Writings From John Adams
In late 1765, John Adams began writing an essay entitled, “A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law.” He was 30 years old and just beginning to stretch his legal and political wings. His purpose for writing this essay was to contrast the tyranny of feudal and canon law with the glorious struggle for freedom […]
A Beginner’s Review of the Qur’an, Part 3: The Best Defense
This is part three of a three-part series. Read Part I Here Read Part II Here I asked my good Christian friend and Muslim expert, Mark Siljander, to weigh in on this subject. Here is his reply: “I would humbly suggest your students read A Deadly Misunderstanding. Many of their questions will be answered and […]