Archive for Education

Entrepreneurs of the World, Unite!, Part 4

by: Oliver DeMille March 5, 2010

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The Growing Popularity of Producer Education
Consider what leading thinkers on the needs of American education and business are saying.
In Revolutionary Wealth, renowned futurist Alvin Toffler says that schools must deemphasize outdated [...]

Entrepreneurs of the World, Unite!, Part 3

by: Oliver DeMille March 4, 2010

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The Power of Entrepreneurship
The wooden stake that overcomes the vampire of an inelastic class system is entrepreneurial success.
Becoming a producer and successfully creating new value in society helps the entrepreneur surpass [...]

Entrepreneurs of the World, Unite!, Part 2

by: Oliver DeMille March 3, 2010

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Producer vs. Employee Society
A society of producers is more likely to promote freedom than a society of dependents. Indeed, only a society of producers can maintain freedom.
Most nations in history have [...]

Entrepreneurs of the World, Unite!, Part 1

by: Oliver DeMille March 2, 2010

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A revolution is needed.
Not just any revolution, mind you, but a specific kind of freedom shift that will make the critical difference.
In order to progress, we need a renaissance [...]

Victor Davis Hanson on The Coming Aristocracy

by: Stephen Palmer February 13, 2010

In a recent article on National Review Online entitled “The Trouble with Elitist Theories,” Victor Davis Hanson echoes themes from Oliver DeMille’s The Coming Aristocracy.
Hanson, a renowned scholar, Hoover Institute Fellow and the author of 15 books, including one of my personal favorites, The Other Greeks: The Family Farm & the Agrarian Roots of Western [...]

The Chemistry of Genius?, Part 2

by: Oliver DeMille February 11, 2010

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Seratonin, Adrenaline and Myelin
Science is now beginning to show the reasons [why quality in education decreases with individualization].
Studies have shown for a long time that students receiving personalized, caring and quality mentorship learn more effectively than those [...]

The Chemistry of Genius?, Part 1

by: Oliver DeMille February 9, 2010

New Science on What Makes Quality Education
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Harvard Business School recently emphasized that the major changes in the world tend to come from what they called “disruptive innovators.”

These are surprising innovations that usually come from out-of-the-mainstream sources and [...]

Join Us at the Thomas Jefferson Education Forum 2010

by: Stephen Palmer January 30, 2010

If you care about leadership education for yourself and your children, and if you want to increase your influence, then you need to seriously consider attending this year’s Thomas Jefferson Education Forum in Salt Lake City, Utah on March 19th and 20th.
This annual event, organized by Diann Jeppson and Jodie Palmer of TJEd Marketplace, is [...]

A Review of Launching a Leadership Revolution by Orrin Woodward & Chris Brady

by: Oliver DeMille January 29, 2010

As a fan of leadership books, I try to read everything that comes out in this field.
Unfortunately, reading hundreds of books on the same topic means there is seldom something really new—fresh, exciting, revolutionary that uplifts the entire genre.
The last such surprise for me came several years ago in the writings of Steve Farber. But [...]

3 Magic Seeds: How to Teach Your Children the Entrepreneurial Spirit

by: Stephen Palmer January 28, 2010

Last year the Action Foundation for Entrepreneurial Excellence published a great article entitled “3 Magic Seeds: Discovering the Entrepreneurial Spirit” (link shared with permission from Jeff Sandefer).
It provides an excellent three-part formula for teaching youth the entrepreneurial spirit. Anyone who understands the power of mini-factories and believes in generational thinking should read the article and [...]