A Summer Seminar That Changes Lives

Through the Great Connections seminars, students grapple with profound ideas.
A Summer Seminar That Changes Lives
Students discuss the seminar text. Courtesy of Marsha Enright
Jeff Minick
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It’s summertime, and once again young men and women, most of them high school or college students, gathered in Chicago for a week of Great Connections seminars and activities focusing on some of life’s most basic questions, such as “How do I know what I know?” or “How do I build a life of meaning and creative achievement?”

When they return to their homes, many of them carry with them an array of unexpected gifts.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.