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New Quarterly Publication Highlights Important Topics Affecting our Nation's Future
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Spring 2020 Issue
Should America's Colleges Teach Patriotism?
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JMC's inaugural issue of The American Experiment features the keynote address delivered October 3, 2019 at the Jack Miller Center’s 2019 Summit on Higher Education. Focusing on the theme of the summit, “Should America’s Colleges Teach Patriotism?”, Dr. Agresto spoke on true patriotism and its relationship to civic knowledge.
Dr. John Agresto is former Chancellor of the American University of Iraq and President of St. John’s College (ret.). He is a member of the JMC Board of Directors.
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Should America's Colleges Teach Patriotism?
John Agresto
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" ... We sometimes hear countries called 'our fatherland,' or 'our motherland.' We often love it as we love our own, as part of ourselves, because we know that for some natural reason, all humans love their own ...
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"The same would seem to be true with love of country. If love of one’s own is natural to being human, why would we ever even think it necessary to teach people to love their native land? Why? Because, natural or not, we all understand that patriotism can be undermined and twisted. And, in America today, it is.
I spent much of my adult life as a president of or professor in some very fine colleges and universities. And I am not one who is comfortable painting schools and colleges with so broad a brush as to say that they are, each and all, corrupting our kids and turning them against their country. But we all know that some, perhaps many, are. So, the question we have to get to is: What can we do about it?
But to know how to remedy this problem, we first have to ask what’s causing so many teachers and their students to actively dislike their country ... "
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John Agresto is the former President of St. John’s College and former Chancellor and Provost of the American University of Iraq. Professor Agresto has been a leading proponent of the value of a liberal arts education, lecturing and writing on its nature and benefits for many years.
Before St. John’s College, Professor Agresto served as President at the Madison Center in Washington, D.C. and as Assistant Chairman, Deputy Chairman, and Acting Chairman to the National Endowment for the Humanities for seven years.
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Widely published in the areas of politics, law, and education, he is the author or editor of several books, including Rediscovering America: Liberty, Equality, and the Crisis of Democracy (Asahina & Wallace, 2015), Mugged by Reality: The Liberation of Iraq and the Failure of Good Intentions (Encounter, 2007), and The Supreme Court and Constitutional Democracy (Cornell, 1984).
Professor Agresto is a JMC board member.
Learn more about John Agresto >>
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About the Jack Miller Center
The Jack Miller Center is a 501(c)(3) public charity with the mission to reinvigorate education in America's founding principles and history. We work to advance the teaching and study of America's history, its political and economic institutions, and the central principles, ideas and issues arising from the American and Western traditions—all of which continue to animate our national life.
We support professors and educators through programs, resources, fellowships and more to help them teach our nation's students.
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