Tag: Hillsdale College

Hillsdale College- Free online Learning & More

March 1, 2024

by Norm Silber

Hillsdale College, located in Hillsdale, Michigan, is the premier bastion of classical freedom-loving American no-compromise higher education.
It offers free, noncredit online courses by its faculty.

Hillsdale Education Growth chart admins student and teachers

Growth of the Administrative Public Education “State”

December 18, 2022December 17, 2022

by Steve MacDonald

If you read Imprimis from Hillsdale College, this landed in your mailbox last week. President Larry Arn writes about ‘Education as a Battleground,’ which includes that startling graph you see above.

Jordan Peterson - Hillsadale commencement 2022

Sin and Government

June 3, 2022

by Steve MacDonald

Jordan Peterson gave the 2022 commencement address at Hillsdale College, and it was brilliant. He called it (or Maybe Hillsdale did) At the crossroads. That was the subject of the talk. That place where you have an essential choice to make and what that looks like or means philosophically, metaphorically, through a lens of faith and practically speaking.

BCRC – Howard Kaloogian, Hillsdale College

December 11, 2021December 11, 2021

by Skip

At the 12/6/21 meeting of the Belknap County (NH) Republican Party, Howard Kalloogian gave a talk about Hillsdale College – the premier Conservative college in the US.

Hillsdale College Affiliated Charter School to Open in New Hampshire

February 25, 2021

by Op-Ed

Monadnock Classical Academy has been accepted by the Barney Charter School Initiative of Hillsdale College as an affiliated charter school, according to Barry Tanner, Chairman of the Monadnock Freedom to Learn Coalition, Inc. The new public charter school is expected to open in the fall of 2022 at a site in the Monadnock region yet to be finalized.

Help Starting a Charter School

October 8, 2019

by Norm Silber

If the thought of being able to send your child or children to a public charter school appeals to you, but you have no idea of where to begin, may I suggest that the founding group of parents (yes- we need at least 10 parents to make this work) try to establish a working relationship … Read more

Democrats Do Not Want You To Be Free

September 26, 2018March 3, 2012

by Steve MacDonald

According to Dr. Larry Arnn, President of Hillsdale College…

“Limited Government is necessary if you are going to have a representative government. You can’t have a representative government unless you have a big, strong, independent, vibrant society, that can be represented, that is independent of the government that represents it.”

With people being who people are, this makes perfect sense. We are not angels. And human beings are not to be trusted in the defense of their own cause because they are prone to take advantage or each other. And history has shown time and again that bigger governments inevitably result in fewer freedoms. So we can see who favors less actual freedom–not the false rhetorical, hopey-changey, social justice variety–by looking at who encourages dependence on a larger central government.

Introduction to the Constitution (Conclusion)

September 26, 2018March 2, 2012

by Steve MacDonald

Here is the concluding session of the Hillsdale College Introduction to the Constitution. (Part 5) To see earlier versions posted on Granite grok, here is Part One, Part Two, Part Three, and Part Four. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=JJnWoDskkHU (Sorry – MP3 Version was too large to add to the post) Please visit Hillsdale College and register … Read more

Introduction to the Constitution (Part 3)

September 26, 2018February 28, 2012

by Steve MacDonald

Following part one– link back here, or part two–here, we proudly bring you part 3 of the Hillsdale College Introduction to the Constitution.

(An MP3 version and the Study Guide questions for part 3 are on the jump.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y5ZtCRLAkc&feature=player_embedded

Please visit Hillsdale College and register for this series and their Hillsdale College Constitution 101 class.

Introduction to the Constitution (Part 4)

September 26, 2018February 28, 2012

by Steve MacDonald

If you missed part one– link back here, part two–here, or part three, of Hillsdale’s Introduction to the Constitution, link back and check them out. For those who are caught up, here is part 4 of the Hillsdale College Introduction to the Constitution.

(MP3 version and Study Guide questions for part 4 on the jump.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7ioikCihaGw

Please visit Hillsdale College and register for this series and their Hillsdale College Constitution 101 class.

Introduction to the Constitution (Part 2)

September 26, 2018February 27, 2012

by Steve MacDonald

Following on the heels of part one, link back here if you need to see part one or my text introducing it, we at the Grok proudly bring you part 2 of the Hillsdale College Introduction to the Constitution.

(An MP3 version of this video, and the Study Guide questions for part 2 on the jump.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eeQmtQVPbc&feature=player_detailpage

Please visit Hillsdale College and register for this series and their Hillsdale College Constitution 101 class.

Introduction to the Constitution (Updated Video Link)

September 26, 2018February 26, 2012

by Steve MacDonald

Hillsdale College Logo As a followup to Skip’s post on the Hillsdale College Constitution 101 class, I wanted to make you aware of some excellent video-lectures called an “Introduction to the Constitution,” that you may want to watch before you proceed to ‘Constitution 101.’ You’ll have access to these if you register for the free Constitution 101 course, (a well as PDF’s of all the related founding documents, and study guides) but I wanted to post them over the next few days to give you a taste of what you can look forward to in Constitution 101.

Besides, like many of you, we plan to do a lot of things at the Grok that we never end up doing because there are only so many hours in the day. By posting these here we encourage ourselves, and hopefully others, to take advantage of these excellent opportunities–opportunities that arm us all with knowledge our progressive friends would rather you not have.

What better motivation is there than that?

Hillsdale College presents “Constitution 101”

September 26, 2018February 25, 2012

by Skip

You know, that old dusty document that those old white men wrote that US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg doesn’t seem to like much? Well, we do at the ‘Grok and when this post over at National Review Online showed up, I figured I’d give it a gander:

Hillsdale College is almost alone among colleges and universities in making its students take a course on the U.S. Constitution. Now you can take it as well, via Constitution 101, an online 10-week course:

In this course, you can:

watch lectures from the same Hillsdale faculty who teach on campus;
study the same readings taught in the College course;
submit questions for weekly Q&A sessions with the faculty;
access a course study guide;
test your knowledge through weekly quizzes;
and upon completion of the course, receive a certificate from Hillsdale College.

Well, I clicked on the link, and have signed up for the course. They do ask for a donation, but the course itself is free! A quick syllabus after the jump from the Registration site.

Will You Kneel Before The Government?

September 26, 2018September 22, 2010

by Steve MacDonald

Kneel Before Zod! I was watching the online web cast of Hillsdale College’s commemoration of the Kirby Center (on Constitution Day) in Washington DC, and Dr. Charles Kessler of Claremont McKenna College. Dr. Kessler is a constitutional scholar and early on in his speech he makes the following observation about the current clash between the government and the people, and the rise of the Tea Party

‘Either the government will have to kneel to the people….or the people will have to kneel to the government.’

We should think about that because Dr. Kessler is correct.