What is a Patriotic Education?

We are in the midst of a civics renaissance, with a growing and diverse call for improving civic education nationally. But what role does patriotism play in this movement to form informed and engaged citizens?

Join the Jack Miller Center’s Tom Kelly for a conversation with Yale University political science professor Steven B. Smith and Arizona State Professor and Senior Fellow for Civic Thought and Leadership, Paul Carrese about the meaning of patriotism and civic education.

We’ll ask: Is it useful to think of civics as a “patriotic education,” or does the phrase just turn the subject into another partisan skirmish. What pre-partisan principles of the American Founding are worth recovering in an age of extremism and alienation? How can we reconcile the universal search for truth which characterizes liberal education with the loyalties commanded by our patriotic love of country?

Register now for this timely conversation with two of the leading minds in the civic education movement.