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We hope you noticed the acceleration of changes. Those changes are on an exponential curve. The Global Academy will accelerate that exponential curve. We invite you to join that upward movement of humankind because, in part, when the Episcopalian bishops and educators met several years ago they noted that there not been a major change in education since the Germans instituted the discipline-based curriculum over 200 years ago. While the Information Revolution and the Internet influenced how education is delivered those innovations did not materially increase the wisdom and emotional well-being of children. The Academy model does both. The Global Academy for International Athletics, Inc. An Abstract: The Global Academy for International Athletics was initially incorporated in Arizona and is now incorporated in Albania to train children from around the world for the Olympics. Priority will be given to those 99 nations that have never won an Olympic medal. The Academy was conceived at Harvard University by Dr. William Maxwell as a model school for the 21st century, and is an up-dated version of Plato’s Academy. Some salient features: § The “Talent Identification” aspects of the Academy’s programs begin by training parents how to ensure optimum health and fitness for their children and how to identify their children’s strongest talents at an early age. Handbooks, games, and other materials will be available from any point in the child’s development. § In September, 2010, the Academy is establishing a Junior School, a day school, for children ages 3 1/2 to 6, at the Chateau Linza, Tirana. From age eight, children, with their parents, are invited to the Academy for a week of talent evaluation and physical, mental, nutritional and emotional assessment.These “Children’s Athletics Trials” were tested in Phoenix with 27 children from nine nations, and a professional/technical staff of over twenty[1]. Following these comprehensive assessments, the child’s parents will be given individualized guidance for the child’s athletic and academic development. § Annual or semi-annual checkups and follow-ups for all children who will have undergone those “Children’s Athletics Trials” will be available as desired. At least one parent must accompany the child to these trials and to the final enrollment. § On their 12th birthday, those children with exceptionally high athletic and scholastic abilities may be admitted to the Academy and begin a rigorous residential training program that will prepare them for international athletic competition and or professional careers (as scientists or diplomats or teachers or engineers, or other). At the end of their six years of training the children will know * The 25 to 50 most fundamental concepts and principles of all the sciences; * The basics of twelve major world languages; * At least 100 of the world’s greatest works of literature; * One skilled trade; * The principles of music and the fine arts; and be qualified to enter one of the world’s top 100 universities. The children also will be prepared to represent their nation in the subsequent Olympics or World Cup. We anticipate that the Academy’s first campus will be located in Albania, with branches later established on each inhabited continent. Unique Features of the Academy: * The Academy accepts students regardless of the economic background. The cost of the students’ education and training may be born by the students’ parents or government or by a named scholarship, or by an “Educational Mortgage,” a concept suggested by Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman. * Just before he died, Professor Friedman endorsed the Academy. [Here is his corespondence] * Inspired, global-minded philanthropists are invited to establish perpetual scholarships where the interest on their endowment covers the full costs of the child’s six-year education. [1] The nations were the Cayman Islands, The Congo, Eritrea, Fiji, Israel, Malawi, Papua New Guinea, Swaziland, and the U.S.A.
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