Manifesto CoreEducation, Culture and Public Life
Purpose of Education
Education should transmit civilization before attempting to transform it, with serious study of Christianity, history, classical civilization, the sciences and the arts.
Policy catalogueEducation, Culture and Public Life
Agreed PolicyUniversities and Academic Freedom
Universities should retain genuine academic freedom while ceasing to operate as institutions of compulsory ideological propagation.
Position
Universities should retain genuine academic freedom while ceasing to operate as institutions of compulsory ideological propagation.
Policy
- Liberal, Marxist, secular, Catholic, nationalist and other theories may be studied and debated academically.
- Public universities should not institutionally impose liberal or progressive ideology as unquestionable doctrine.
- Students should not be required to profess ideological positions unrelated to academic competence.
- Hiring and promotion should not discriminate against lawful Catholic, conservative or traditionalist scholarship.
- Christianity, classical civilization, European history, philosophy and the Western intellectual tradition should receive serious institutional space.
Principle
Education should pursue truth rather than manufacture ideological conformity.
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- Agreed PolicyGovernment, Justice and Public Order
Free Speech and Public Doctrine
Broad political and academic discussion is protected; speech that directly incites violence, terrorism or criminal conduct is not.
- Agreed PolicyEducation, Culture and Public Life
Private, Catholic and Independent Schools
A plural education system including Catholic, private, classical, vocational and monastic schools, with public funding able to follow families.
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