Principles of Liberty Course Description

Principles of Liberty is a Ten Boom Institute Introductory, Beginning Level Course. It is part 1 of a two-part series. Principles of Liberty I covers the "first principles" of government and economics that the Founders studied, taught and believed. Principles of Liberty II will demonstrate those principles in American History, the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution.

Purpose of this Course

The objective of this course is not just to watch some great lectures, complete the readings and be done. It is to learn how to learn in a principle based way. This course won't just fill you with information. If done correctly, it will change the way you think about government and economics. It will increase your ability to express your beliefs diplomatically and it will empower you to know what you can do to begin effecting a return to the "first principles" that our nation was founded upon.

This course has been designed to be as easy and affordable as possible while still offering maximum educational benefits. It can be completed at your own pace. The Study Guide offers an 8 step program through the material.

Included in this Course

1. Video Lectures

Lecture 1: Principles & Cycles
Lecture 2: The Founders' Education
Lecture 3: Humanism
Lecture 4: Law
Lecture 5: Threats to Liberty
Lecture 6: History of Economics
Lecture 7: Money & Local Involvement

2. Study Guide

Suggested Readings
Assignments
Book Discussion Questions
Go Deeper Section
Additional Study Suggestions
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3. "Lost Educational Principles" Articles

Getting the Book Through You
Your Standard For Truth
Classics: Why & How You Should Read Them

From Opinions to Principles
Leading Principle Based Discussions
Video: Lost Educational Principles

Readings for this Course

The 5000 Year Leap by Cleon Skousen- If you've already read this book, great! This course will show you how to internalize the material in it while giving you additional principles and ideas to discuss.
Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? by Richard Maybury- This book is a fabulous economics primer for every age and reading it along with the course will deepen your understanding of it.
Articles from authors like Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Ezra Benson, John Quincy Adams, F.A. Hayek and Benjamin Franklin. These are included on the "Readings" CD.
You will also read the Ten Boom Institute's "Lost Educational Principles" articles.

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
Thomas Jefferson

"...the serious study of history has been declining for half a century and more [1991]...those who understand the past can prepare prudently for a tolerable future"
Russell Kirk

"...responsible leading must be learned and earned...just as virtue, which is the core of responsible leading, is earned: by living in accordance with the instructions of conscience, and by working to emulate the exemplary legacies of those we study and the active examples of those from whom we learn."
Josiah Bunting III

“…to the support of the Constitution and laws, let every American pledge his life, his liberty and his sacred honor;…let it become the political religion of the nation…”
Abraham Lincoln

"Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value."
Stephen R. Covey

"I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching." Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school"
Albert Einstein

"Father, I knew, put an almost religious importance on education. He himself had had to stop school early to go to work in the watch shop and...had gone on to teach himself history, theology, and literature in five languages..."
Corrie ten Boom

"It is probably no exaggeration to say that economics developed mainly as the outcome of the investigation and refutation of successive Utopian proposals."
F. A. Hayek

"The key is to have lots of discussions, both planned and spontaneous, about [your] readings."
Oliver Van DeMille

The Ten Boom Institute is no way related to or affiliated with the Casper ten Boom family or their descendents. We believe them to be a perfect model of individual
and family greatness and have used their name, picture and life stories to exemplify the principles we teach.

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