Liberty Through Virtue
The Founders and Trustees of the college have announced renaming Mount Liberty College to John Adams College. Here is the story behind the name change. Over the next few weeks, you will see changes made to our website and social media. Although we have changed our name, we remain dedicated to helping our students earn a world-class liberal arts education. This commitment will not change.
John Adams College is preparing men and women to enter the world defending liberty, standing in humility, and upholding virtue.
John Adams College is where truth, wisdom, and beauty found in the great works of the past are studied, engaged with, and discussed in depth. A bachelor’s degree in Classical Liberal Arts; Ethics, Government, and Economics from John Adams is for those who desire to engage with the great thinkers of the past, enhance their critical thinking skills, exercise their creative inspiration, and be prepared for any challenges the future holds.
Every age has its own outlook.
– C. S. Lewis
It is especially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books.
Three Parts of an JAC Degree
Original Sources
JAC provides a four-year bachelor’s program designed to allow students to engage with the greatest thinkers of civilization and grapple with their messages. It is the perfect experience to expand critical thinking skills. JAC students take a principle, work through it to real comprehension, connect it to other great works, and then discuss what it really means. This is the stuff critical thinking is made of. Only after this effort can we be in a position to decide if what we have read and thought is truth.
Socratic Discussion
Socratic discussions enable students to deeply engage with both the readings and other members of the class. They must listen, understand, and respond, examining other’s comments as well as their own. Critical thinking, problem solving, and good diplomacy are improved exponentially through these discussions. Combined with original source material, Socratic discussions form a key part of John Adams’s educational model.
Application
An important part of discovering true principles is the obligation to apply them to life. Without the courage to apply these new-found principles, there is really no reason to make the effort to learn them. The ultimate goal of a classical education is discovering fundamental truths and applying them; thus improving ourselves and the world around us.
John Adams College is not easy. A degree from John Adams
will take hard work, diligence, and a lot of courage, but those
who are up to the challenge will not be disappointed.
With the advent of AI,
soft skills are what matter most in education:
Mature deliberation
Problem-solving
Creativity
Understanding human nature
Teamwork
Leadership
Communication
Independent thinking
These skills are at the heart of
John Adams College, and they work:
John Adams College graduates have been accepted into graduate programs at Columbia, Rutgers, Ralston, Ashland, and Antioch universities. Our graduates have also received fellowships at The Spectator World in Washington DC and Encounter Books in New York City.
John Adams College:
Applying the Wisdom of the Past
to the Problems of Today and Tomorrow;
Liberty through Virtue.
“If we do not change the way we teach, thirty years later we will be in trouble. . . . We cannot teach our kids to compete with machines who [are] smarter. We have to teach something unique that machines can never catch up to. In this way, thirty years later, our kids have the chance. Value, believing, independent thinking, teamwork, care for others; these are the soft parts. . . . Everything we teach should be different from machines.”
– Jack Ma, Founder of Alibaba
John Adams College is a private, non-profit college
located in Provo, Utah and is licensed by the State of Utah.
