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Wednesday, September 7. 2011

The Teaching Company is now "The Great Courses"

It's a better name for this wonderful business. Go onto their site and have them mail you their catalogues. It is a wholesome addiction.


Heather MacDonald has a good piece on the company at City Journal. They are making money. Wow - for-profit education. I actually had the idea of doing that before The Teaching Company existed. There's a big difference between idle dreamers and effective entrepreneurs, ain't there?


We use them often, but tend towards the courses on sale. If you go through ten or so of their courses, randomly-selected, you'll probably know more than the average recent college grad today.

Posted by Bird Dog in Our Essays, The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 14:17 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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We have purchased about 8 courses over the last few years when they are on sale. All of them courses about Christianity. My wife, a part time church pastor, really gets a lot from them.
#1 Sam on 2011-09-07 14:48 (Reply)
"If you go through ten or so of their courses, randomly-selected, you'll probably know more than the average recent college grad today."

I knew more than these folks when I graduated from college 40 years ago. That said, we have gone through quite a number of these courses, often more than once, starting with the Classical Music series, science and linguistics. We get to know the really great teachers and buy every course they give.
#2 fiona on 2011-09-07 15:18 (Reply)
I would wager that I learn more by reading their catalogue, which arrives with great frequency, than most kids are learning at the local famous college.
#3 Pajak (Link) on 2011-09-07 17:51 (Reply)
If you remember your 6th grade US history and your 8th grade civics class you defintitely know more than the average Ivy League College grad!

A recent poll disclosed that over half couldn't place the American Revolution or the Civil War in the correct decade and didn't know the three branchs of government established by the US Constitution!

You are right about those catalogs though, I love 'em!
#4 Earl T on 2011-09-07 19:37 (Reply)
My local library carries many of these so I've listened to many....mostly history , literature, philosophy...all things that interest me now, but that I snoozed thru during college.( young and dumb) I really enjoy them.
#5 debbie on 2011-09-07 19:58 (Reply)
My next purchase will be the course on the Beethoven piano sonatas.
#6 D on 2011-09-08 05:59 (Reply)

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