Common Sense Society (CSS) is an international network that promotes liberty, prosperity, and beauty—educating 21st-century generations and perpetuating timeless principles that are indispensable to human flourishing and happiness. Our new curriculum is one of many resources we offer to illuminate the enduring ideas that have transformed the course of human history for the better.
Our curricular resources consist of a growing number of modules that support middle and high school educators in exploring the value of civilization through a comparative examination of the histories and principles of the United States’ systems of liberty and their totalitarian counterparts.
Each module contains a selection of primary resources, student assignments, and classroom activities designed to enable students to examine the nature and preconditions of liberty, prosperity, beauty, and the pursuit of happiness; to consider how and to what extent these principles have been implemented in the course of history; and to compare and contrast this history of implementation with that of putative alternatives past, present, and future.