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Posted on 01/18/2026 5:18:25 PM PST by karpov
As America enters an era that will seemingly be dominated by artificial intelligence (AI), many question the value of a college education. John Adams College (JAC), a recently founded liberal-arts institution in Provo, Utah, answers the value question by specializing in teaching uniquely human qualities.
JAC, formerly Mount Liberty College, was founded in 2019 by professors who were discontented with the college status quo. Tired of college being treated as mere career training, they built a new institution from scratch, dedicated to “preparing men and women to enter the world defending liberty, standing in humility, and upholding virtue.” JAC offers two degrees: a BA and an MA in classical liberal arts.
JAC emphasizes learning “principles of faith, virtue, and freedom,” noting a desperate need for these goods amid the modern world’s torrent of information and confusion about right and wrong.
To accomplish this mission, JAC students encounter a classical liberal-arts curriculum centered around a robust Great Books program. From Plato and Aristotle to Dante and Milton to the Founders, a Great Books program like JAC’s introduces students to the people and ideas that formed Western civilization and what English critic and poet Matthew Arnold called “the best which has been thought and said.”
JAC’s curriculum includes timeless humanities subjects such as American history, communications, fine arts, government, political economy, speaking, and logic. Unlike the note-taking exercises typical of a college class, JAC’s assignments ask students to read primary sources beforehand and come to class prepared to discuss the text in a roundtable fashion. The result is an engaging part-debate, part-conversation, with professors and students dissecting a text and its ideas together to arrive at its principles. Students learn to defend their opinions on texts and interact with those of their cohort, building public-speaking skills by immersion.
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Sounds somewhat like Hillsdale.
Glad to see this. St. John’s College in Santa Fe, NM has had this curriculum since the 1930s. Very cool program and very demanding.
Shouldn’t highschoolers be up for this kind of curriculum? Career-wise it seems you would be running behind by choosing a traditional liberal arts college education. I wish for a more rigorous curriculum in K-12, somewhere.
St. John’s campus in Santa Fe began operations in 1964. St. John’s in Annapolis, MD was chartered in 1784 and began the great books curriculum iin about 1937.
I certainly question it. I miss Scott Adams so bad.
This Guy has read a lot of books relating to the founding era of this country.
Bernard Baylin wrote some of the best of these.
It can take a long time to develop an independent opinion on which authors are of high skill and informed (defensible) opinion, and which are basically whistling Dixie.
Oops, that’s “Bailyn”, not Baylin.
Harvard professor. Not holding that against him.
Died in 2020.
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