Hillsdale College is a small institution with lofty values: “Goodness, Truth, and Beauty.” Now, the college is expanding its pursuit of the truth to grade schools with an American history curriculum for grades K-12, “offered for free to all who wish to learn.”

“This curriculum is a work of education,” Hillsdale College President Larry P. Arnn said. “It seeks to teach the truth of American history and to cultivate in students the knowledge and virtue necessary to live good lives as citizens.” //

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An abiding truth. That’s what you’ll find in Hillsdale’s free and downloadable 1776 Curriculum—the ideas, words, deeds, and events that have most significantly shaped the world into which we were born and thus form the fabric of America. Download today! https://k12.hillsdale.edu/Curriculum/
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Kathleen O’Toole, assistant provost for K-12 education of the BCSI, noted many truths that grounded the curriculum. A few are listed below:

• That truth is objective, according to the first law of logic, the law of contradiction: that something cannot both be and not be at the same time in the same way. The first object of the human mind and the first end of education is this objective truth about the world.
• That the good is that at which all actions however misguided or distorted, aim. The good shows us how we ought to act, which we call right moral conduct.
• That individuals should be judged based on their specific actions tending toward a certain character instead of their label, group identity, sex, religion, or skin color.
• That although the United States of America is by no means perfect, it is unprecedented in the annals of human history for the extraordinary degrees of freedom, peace, and prosperity available to its people and to those who immigrate to her shores.

That for these reasons, the list concludes, America is an exceptionally good country. //

“The 1619 project has nothing to do with history. It’s a construct by which people can fight current political battles,” Spalding said. “It does what I like to call history backwards — it uses history as a foil to make current arguments.”

What is American Classical Education?

Classical education is a sound and time-tested means of leading students towards intellectual, moral, and civic virtue.
Grounded in Human Nature

Classical education begins with reflection upon the common humanity of its students. All young people require formation, but they innately represent all the potential that makes human beings so unique and remarkable. They can speak, which means they are both social and capable of knowing. They are possessed of will and are therefore capable of doing good. They wonder, and they are moved by beauty. These common characteristics point to the virtues and vices that are common to all human beings, and classical education leads students to know, practice, and love the virtues.
Real Content

A classical education takes a content-rich approach to the study of important subjects. As students mature in the curriculum, classical education teaches them to ask and venture answers to the big questions, then goes further to consider how those questions might be answered persuasively and beautifully. Classical education regards both the humanities and the sciences as equally important, because wonder about human nature and the natural world is essential to the human condition, and that knowledge of both leads us towards wisdom and happiness.

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