America turns 250. Are we still forming citizens?
This summer, America turns 250. Flags and fireworks will fly, and we will celebrate the genius of the Founding Fathers — the launching of the greatest act of self-governance in history.
TL;DR
- America is approaching its 250th anniversary, a time to celebrate the Founding Fathers and self-governance.
- Higher education institutions have betrayed their responsibility to form citizens, often becoming ashamed of America's founding principles.
- The collapse of coherent core curricula means undergraduates no longer engage with America's founding, leading to historical ignorance or negative views.
- Cornerstone University's new "Cornerstone Core" curriculum focuses on the Christian worldview, the American experience, and marketplace intelligence.
- The curriculum aims to form citizens capable of preserving the republic by grounding them in Christian virtues, American founding texts, and free-market economics.
- The article posits that American founding principles are permanent ideas related to divinely endowed rights, virtue for self-government, religious liberty, economic freedom, and civic virtue.
- It calls for colleges and universities to recommit to forming students through engagement with these exceptional principles for the nation's future.