ReValue America Tour in Southern California Begins in December

ReValue America Tour Schedule Update   Here is the latest schedule update: November 30 Date Open   December 3  7:00-9:00pm Conejo Valley Adult Education School 33 Greta Street Thousand Oaks, 91360 Contact: Joelle Mancuso 805-796-9333 joelletjed@gmail.com   December 4  1:00-3:00pm Escondido Learning Center 1441 Montiel Road, Ste 145 Escondido, 92026 Contact:  Tony Drown 760-716-7505 tdrown@mydehesa.org   December 4  6:30-8:30pm Escondido Learning Center 1441 Montiel Road, Ste 145 Escondido, 92026 Contact:  Tony Drown 760-716-7505 tdrown@mydehesa.org   December 5  9:15-11:15am Chula Vista Learning Center 1200 East H Street, Chula...

November 16, 2013Citizenship, Culture, Current Events, Economics, Education, Entrepreneurship, Family, Free Enterprise, Leadership, Liberty, Monticello College2 CommentsRead more...

Why I Hate School But Love Education

On December 5, 2012, English rapper-poet Suli Breaks posted a video that took the internet by storm.  With over 500,000 hits in the first couple of days, and over 2.5 million to date, this youtube video went viral almost the second it was released. This young college graduate, turned self-styled poet,...

April 23, 2013Business, Economics, Education, Entrepreneurship, Free Enterprise, History, Leadership, StatesmanshipComments OffRead more...

What Would Socrates Do?

This post is a tribute to Earl Shorris, one of my favorite writers on education who passed away in 2012. I am reprinting  the April 16, 2013 Wall Street Journal Book Review of his latest book, The Art of Freedom.  This piece was written by Naomi Schaefer Riley.   In The Art of Freedom, Earl Shorris...

April 18, 2013Citizenship, Culture, Current Events, Economics, Education, Family, Free Enterprise, Georgics, Government, Leadership, Liberty, Monticello College, Politics3 CommentsRead more...

The Reality of Disruptive Innovation

Are technology and education merging or fighting each other?  This post explores how business development and disruptive innovation impacts education. 15 years ago Clayton Christensen published a best selling book entitled The Innovator’s Dilemma.  Christensen is considered a leader in the field of business development especially in times of vast technological...

April 9, 2013Business, Current Events, Education, Entrepreneurship, Free Enterprise, Monticello CollegeComments OffRead more...

Return of the Manual Arts

We have spent considerable space in these posts discussing education, particularly the liberal arts. This post is dedicated to the lesser known side of our curriculum—the manual arts. Manual arts are not something that the average American thinks about in the 21st century. But a hundred years ago, the vast majority of Americans...

March 21, 2013Business, Culture, Current Events, Economics, Education, Entrepreneurship, Family, Free Enterprise, Georgics, Government, History, Law, Leadership, Liberty, Monticello College, Politics11 CommentsRead more...

The Dawning Of A New Era

We have been saying for years that the day would come when the concepts and results of a liberal education would again be valued in politics, business, and society in general, that citizenship would enjoy a renewed position of importance in our nation, and that statesmen would rise up in...

March 9, 2013Business, Citizenship, Constitution, Culture, Current Events, Education, Entrepreneurship, Family, Founding Fathers, Free Enterprise, Government, History, Law, Leadership, Liberty, Monticello College, Politics, Virtue4 CommentsRead more...

The Liberal Arts During Bondage; Part Three: The Fourth Turning: The Opportunity Of The Century

Click Here to Read Part One Click Here to Read Part Two To wrap up this series, let’s rely on history to show us a way out of Bondage. As was mentioned in part two, we not only rely on the 250-year society oriented Tytler Cycle to show us the way, but...

February 27, 2013Business, Citizenship, Current Events, Economics, Education, Entrepreneurship, Family, Free Enterprise, Government, History, Law, Leadership, Liberty, Monticello College, Politics, Religion, Statesmanship2 CommentsRead more...

The Liberal Arts During Bondage: Part Two; How Do the Liberal Arts Help Us During Bondage?

  Click Here to Read Part One Bringing You Up To Speed If you will recall from part one, for the past twenty years, we have taught that America was somewhere on the “pre-bondage” side of the cycle, between Selfishness and Dependence. As we enter 2013, we have clearly entered the Bondage phase.  Just...

February 6, 2013Citizenship, Culture, Economics, Education, Entrepreneurship, Family, Founding Fathers, Free Enterprise, Georgics, History, Leadership, Liberty, Monticello College, Politics, Religion, Statesmanship, Virtue2 CommentsRead more...

If It Saves Just One Life

I was shocked, dismayed, and like you I personally grieved for the families who lost children at the Newtown, Connecticut shooting just two month ago. What a severe act of violence. Who can make sense of 27 senseless deaths? It will indeed be a black mark on American history. And as much...

February 1, 2013Citizenship, Current Events, Economics, Education, Entrepreneurship, Family, Foreign Affairs, Free Enterprise, Government, History, Law, Leadership, Liberty, Monticello College, Politics, Virtue3 CommentsRead more...

The Fat Lady Begins To Sing

And so it begins… The most recent national election declared the passion of the American people for the Nanny State. Of the almost 127 million voters, a majority preferred a governing system that favors high taxes, a saturated welfare system, forced health care, and an abundance of government dependent workers. Apparently we have...

January 12, 2013Business, Citizenship, Constitution, Culture, Education, Entrepreneurship, Founding Fathers, Free Enterprise, Georgics, Government, History, Law, Leadership, Liberty, Monticello College, Statesmanship4 CommentsRead more...