Culture And Society
“The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life — by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality.”
ARI News
Occasionally, in a blog post, we will highlight important parts of the Ayn Rand Institute’s Annual Report. For 2016, our focus is on the Institute’s Free Books to Teachers program from the perspective of Shoshana Milgram, associate professor of English at Virginia Tech and long-time supporter of the program.
ARI News
The Objectivist Academic Center is a distance-learning program designed for ambitious individuals pursuing careers in business, academia and public policy. This year, the OAC has really put the “distance” in distance learning.
Government And Business
In this sound bite from The Yaron Brook Show, originally aired as part of the December 24, 2016 show, Yaron offers a plan for the Trump Administration’s first 100 days. Touching on cronyism, tax reform, entitlements, education, health care and national defense, this is the advice Brook would give Trump, if he were to ask for it.
Culture And Society
In this talk, Eric Daniels, science teacher and curriculum developer at LePort schools, explores what’s wrong with today’s science education, the history of science education and how to fundamentally improve science education.
Government And Business
Believe it or not, but next week I am going to give a couple of talks on educational freedom, in Sweden.
Government And Business
On March 10, 2016, Onkar Ghate, senior fellow, and Carl Svanberg, research associate, spoke on the meaning and value of educational freedom at the North Carolina Alliance for Public Charter Schools’ 2016 Charter School Conference in Charlotte, NC.
ARI News
On March 9 – 11, The North Carolina Alliance for Public Charter Schools will be organizing the 2016 Public Charter Schools Conference in Charlotte, NC. Onkar Ghate, senior fellow, and Carl Svanberg, research associate, will be there to offer ARI’s radical perspective on educational freedom.
ARI News
In the ongoing school choice debate we are often bombarded with studies and statistics allegedly showing whether school choice works or not. But one thing that few recognize is how moral ideas shape the debate.
ARI News
On November 14, 2015, more than 200 attendees joined ARI’s sessions on immigration, inequality and educational freedom at Freedom Summit Chicago 2015.
