The way we as a people understand our freedoms and free institutions is often decisively shaped by the way history is taught in our colleges and universities. Too few professors teach, and too few students learn the founding principles and ideas that are the greatest source of our national strength and purpose. The Jack Miller Center provides programs and resources that are needed to support and increase the number of college professors in the humanities and social sciences who teach these principles and who inspire and cultivate an atmosphere of civil discussion. We also support efforts by university and college professors to improve education at the high school level. It is only by promoting civil discourse and knowledge of our founding principles that we fulfill the great promise of the founding and of all free societies: the belief that ordinary people can wisely fulfill the responsibilities of self-governing citizens through education.