The Educational Guidance Institute (EGI) is a non-profit educational organization established in 1986 with the mission of teaching teenagers and young adults a “Whole Person” approach to character and moral development. Under a federal grant from the Department of Health and Human Services, EGI developed the “Project Heart to Heart in Love, Life and Marriage” program. The program featured our “Love and Life at the Movies” lesson plans, which used classic films in a communal setting to teach abstinence and marriage education. These lesson plans are available for middle- and high-school aged children from all backgrounds, and have been highly successful in all settings, from the classroom to the detention home. Click here for Products
After our federal grant expired in 2008, EGI expanded its target audience to include not only high school but college students and young adults as well. The teaching and learning experiences gathered through the pilots done under the grant confirmed our belief that all people share a common human nature, and that lasting happiness depends upon living a virtuous, integrated life as whole persons. Film readily integrates all aspects of the human person – intellectual, social, emotional, physical, and moral – and therefore proved to be the most effective means of communicating timeless truths in an excessively visual age. EGI chose to use specifically classic films because they are the artistic product of a culture which understood and elevated virtue in both personal and civil life. While many assumed that such films would not appeal to today’s young people, EGI has discovered the exact opposite to be the case: children and adults of all ages are still captivated by the beauty, truth and goodness depicted in these films.
EGI continues to look to the future with its latest project, “We Hold These Truths”, which is a program designed to teach college students and young adults how to become better citizens. By the use of such great films as “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” and “12 Angry Men”, young people will learn the value of human dignity and true patriotism. It is EGI’s hope that through the implementation of such a program, young people will learn how to love and serve their country and to transcend the deep divisions between people artificially created in our modern culture.
Educational Guidance Institute
188 Berbusse Lane
Front Royal
VA 22630
(540) 635-4420