Discussion to center on how today’s thought mirrors classic concepts

[FLOWER MOUND, Texas -  Nov. 17, 2008] Local educator and Denton County resident Rodney Marshall, headmaster of Coram Deo Academy, has been invited  to participate in an all-expenses paid colloquium attracting scholars, researchers, and theorists from around the country , designed to discuss and argue a number of academically-based premises based on Plato’s Republic.

                Sponsored by the Center for the American Idea and the Liberty Fund, the colloquium is entitled “The American Founding and the Western Intellectual Tradition: Liberty and Order in Plato’s Republic,” and will take place in Alexandria, VA, Dec. 4-7, 2008.

                “This is quite an honor and a privilege, as only 16 educators received scholarships to participate in the two-and-one-half-day conference,” said Mr. Marshall. “I am looking forward to the discussion sessions on justice, the human condition and the exploration of ideas about individual liberty and responsibility.”

Mr. Marshall recently completed 40 credit hours of doctoral studies in preparation for legal research and an applied dissertation leading to a Doctor of Education at the College of Humanities and Sciences, Harrison Middleton University. Harrison Middleton is a great books, great ideas and great conversations, distance-learning university that offers undergraduate and graduate education in the humanities.  Mr. Marshall is a graduate from the College of Business and Economics at Washington State University and subsequently completed a Master of Divinity. Ordained into the gospel ministry in 1981, Marshall has been the Headmaster at Coram Deo Academy since its inception in 1999.

 The Center for the American Idea is a tax-exempt, private operating foundation that conducts its own program for educational activities.  Similarly, the Liberty Fund is a private, educational foundation established to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals.   The success of these co-sponsored colloquia is measured in the civil discourse that is cultivated in an atmosphere of learned fellowship shared among colleagues, according to officials from both organizations.