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Oliver Van DeMille

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Oliver DeMille is a founder and former president of George Wythe University, a founding partner of The Center for Social Leadership, and the author of A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the 21st Century. Presently, he serves as mentor directing graduate and doctoral programs and devotes a majority of his time to writing.

As a university student, Oliver went on a search for a truly great education — researching private and public universities, technical and religious schools, and corporate and international educational institutions. As a result, he took classes from a small Bible school where he worked closely with mentors and studied the Bible and the great classics in many fields. Although Coral Ridge Baptist...more

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Books by Oliver Van DeMille

Average rating: 4.28 · 2,151 ratings · 577 reviews · 12 distinct works

	A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-first Century 4.25 avg rating — 1,328 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions	My rating:
	A Thomas Jefferson Education Home Companion by Oliver Van DeMille, Diann Jeppson, Rachel DeMille 4.11 avg rating — 327 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Leadership Education: The Phases of Learning by Oliver Van DeMille, Rachel DeMille 4.43 avg rating — 230 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Thomas Jefferson Education for Teens by Oliver Van DeMille, Shanon Brooks 4.49 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Coming Aristocracy 4.42 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Freedom Shift 4.58 avg rating — 45 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Student Whisperer: Inspiring Genius by Oliver Van DeMille, Tiffany Earl, Daniel Ruesch (Illustrator) 3.50 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Seven Keys to Great Teaching 4.52 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	Transition to Scholar 4.61 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Scholar Phase 4.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2003	My rating:

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Quotes by Oliver Van DeMille

“Books are better than television, the internet, or the computer for educating and maintaining freedom.
Books matter because they state ideas and then attempt to thoroughly prove them. They have an advantage precisely because they slow down the process, allowing the reader to internalize, respond, react and transform. The ideas in books matter because time is taken to establish truth, and because the reader must take the time to consider each idea and either accept it or, if he rejects it, to think through sound reasons for doing so. A nation of people who write and read is a nation with the attention span to earn an education and free society if they choose.”
― Oliver Van DeMille

tags: attention-span , book , media , thomas-jefferson-education

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“Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think.”
― Oliver Van DeMille, A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-first Century

tags: barbells , exercise , thinking , weight-lifting

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“The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.”
― Oliver Van DeMille

tags: allegiance , ingenuity , leadership

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