Founding Principles

Monday, August 14, 2017

 
Bowdoin College is pleased to offer "Founding Principles" as an instructive tool readily available and appropriate for a wide assortment of audiences.

Narrated by Bowdoin College Government Professor Andrew Rudalevige, the series provides an introductory overview and basic understanding to American government, but one that is crucial to building citizen-leaders, promoting civic engagement, and working toward the common good.

http://www.bowdoin.edu/founding-principles/

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I teach them all the good I can, and recommend them to others from whom I think they will get some moral benefit. And the treasures that the wise men of old have left us in their writings I open and explore with my friends. If we come on any good thing, we extract it, and we set much store on being useful to one another. - Socrates, Memorabilia
 
 
 
What we maintain is that in none of the problems of life can men afford to lose sight of the storehouse bequeathed to them by the ancients. In the complexus of everything which differentiates man from the brute creation, the voice of antiquity must be heard...

-H. Browne, quoted in "Classics and Citizenship" The Classical Quarterly, 1920