What questions should you be considering when evaluating colleges today? What are some of the myths and realities surrounding degrees and careers and where those lead? What kinds of skills should your child learn in four years that will really stick with them and push them toward leadership positions? College president Ben Merkle helps answer…
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John Mark Reynolds is a self professed rule breaker. From his West Virginia upbringings and hard work ethic, he isn’t afraid to innovate and press assumed boundaries. He insists we shouldn’t do weird experiments on our kids by just dropping them into a prescribed K-12 and college education formula without understanding its history and if it is right…
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George Grant was successful by all academic accounts and had become a speech writer for well known politicians. But what he realized while working on a masters in political science was that so much of what he was taught was not complete, and even worse, factually wrong. Many aspects of the history of our nation…
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The word “beauty” has gotten a bad rap these days. Modern folks generally toss it aside as an irrelevant and impractical thing, relegated to something soft and impractical, best for little girls having tea parties. Even the phrase “Truth, Goodness and Beauty” rank orders beauty as a distant third. Steve Turley defends beauty as essential…
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Young children should be protected by parents and caregivers, but at some point baby bird has to leave the nest and learn to fly in the “real world.” When to hold and protect and when to release to the world is never easy. College President Greg Thornbury is raising his family and leading one of the most dynamic…
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