Education for a New Enlightenment
By Marsha Enright Winter 2010 — If you’re familiar with two- to five-year-old children, then you understand what Aristotle meant when he said “All men, by nature, desire to know.” Very little will...
View ArticleMaria Montessori: The Liberator of Children
By Marsha Familaro Enright Originally published in Free Voices, Spring 2013 One hundred and thirty two years ago last August in Chiaravalle, on the northeast coast of Italy, a baby girl was born who...
View ArticleThe Psychology and Practice of Introspection
by Marsha Familaro Enright, July 2013 for The Great Connections Seminar Introspection as Freedom To be able to make truly free choices, we need to know ourselves, be in control of ourselves, and to...
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Flourishing in the Creative Destruction of Capitalism Through Education: The...
By Marsha Familaro Enright President, The Reason, Individualism, Freedom Institute, sponsor of The Great Connections Program The Economic Stage is Set In recent decades, the creative destruction of...
View ArticleTeaching Freedom: Incorporating the Principles of a Free Society into Pedagogy
by Rachel Davison Oak Farm Montessori School and Marsha Familaro Enright* The Reason, Individualism, Freedom Institute Teaching Freedom Illustrations Abstract Free Enterprise educators are urged to...
View ArticleThe Habit of Hope
For most of man’s existence on Earth, the universe has been anything but benevolent. Famines, floods, and earthquakes have destroyed whole populations. The plague ravaged Europe during the Middle Ages....
View ArticleLiberating Education – What Education Would Be Like In A Fully Free Society
“Liberating Education” by Marsha Familaro Enright, is the final chapter in Common Ground On Common Core. This chapter discusses the history of education in the U.S. since the time of the Pilgrims, and...
View ArticleThe Problem With Selfishness
by Marsha Familaro Enright Abstract Ayn Rand argued that “selfish” is the correct designation for a person living according to the Objectivist Ethics, that selfishness is a virtue. The accuracy of this...
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What University Education Might Be and Ought to Be
University Education As It Might Be and Ought to Be Part I: What Is the Aim of a University Education? By Marsha Familaro Enright “Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an...
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Schools for Individualists – Montessori’s Methods and Today’s Problems
Marsha Familaro Enright Interview – Schools for Individualists In this 2007 interview by Sara Pentz in The New Individualist (link above), Ms. Enright explains fundamentals of excellent education, the...
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