Education for a Free Society

How do we educate human beings for freedom?

Learning Flourishing explores education, self-government, and human flourishing, and especially the habits and capacities that allow people to practice freedom well.

A free society depends on more than laws and institutions. It depends on people capable of exercising judgment, taking responsibility, acting with agency, associating with others, and governing themselves together.

That makes education for freedom a question not only of what we know, but of who we become.

How do we educate human beings for freedom?


What does a free society ask of us?

A free society depends on more than laws and institutions. It depends on people capable of exercising judgment, taking responsibility, acting with agency, associating with others, and governing themselves together.

That makes education for freedom a question not only of what we know, but of who we become.

FORMATION

How do human beings develop the judgment, character, habits, and capacities necessary to live freely and responsibly?

ASSOCIATION

Where do we learn to live, work, deliberate, disagree, and build things with other people?

SELF-GOVERNMENT

What does it mean to become capable of governing ourselves, individually and together?