Life has funny twists and turns. In 2016, when my youngest daughter, Allison, was a freshman in high school, she asked me if she could attend a summer program at NYU with a […]
At 56, Justin Bieber Changed My Life
Abnormal is the New Normal
“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior,” according to renowned psychiatrist Viktor Frankl. Could it be that the abnormal reactions we are seeing in our youth–anxiety, depression, addiction, suicide–are normal behaviors and that the situations we have placed them in are abnormal? Could our current education system be one such abnormal situation?
Have We Turned Our Children into Emotional Gladiators?
The last of my three daughters graduated from high school this year. As I reflect on our family’s experiences within the culture of compulsory education, I feel like we have emerged from […]
Pathways Giving College A Run For The Money
“Your money or your life” was a popular hold-up phrase in old westerns, but it also applies to the feeling most students and their families have today regarding the long road to […]
The Real Cost of a Meaningless Education
Viktor Frankl was right. In 1965, the world-renowned psychiatrist and author of Man’s Search For Meaning described the U.S. system of education as ‘mechanistic’–a system that treated students like machines rather than […]
Preparing Students for Success in the New Economy
Times have changed. Not just normal evolutionary change, but a dramatic reshaping of our lives. The World Economic Forum calls it “the greatest transformation human civilization has ever known”. We are entering […]
The Vaping Epidemic: Asking the Right Question
I recently attended a lecture by two police officers discussing vaping. They brought all sorts of confiscated vaping devices. There are now over 15,000 different types, including clothing. They talked about the […]
No Time to Lose: We Must Broaden Our Children’s Exposure to the Real World
We have entered “the greatest transformation human civilization has ever known” according to the World Economic Forum. This Fourth Industrial Revolution is eliminating millions of jobs while simultaneously creating millions of new […]
A Generation of Students Caught Between Two Worlds
The Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries created a cultural shift from rural farms to factory-filled cities. Imagine the confusion of parents, trained in agricultural livelihoods, trying to understand this […]
The Dollars and Sense of a College Degree
I never thought I’d be in the restaurant business: it’s risky, I don’t like to cook, and I know very little about the industry. But I believe in investing in people […]
