Thursday, September 26, 2024

I recall the overtly left indoctrination of my 1970's college economic and political science courses that I resisted reading the National Review

 

A Princeton Professor’s Advice to Young Conservatives

Dr. George is a legal scholar and a political philosopher. He is the McCormick professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University.




If a professor tries to indoctrinate you, resist. How will you know? In courses covering controversial subjects, the lectures and readings may present only one side of a dispute or present only weak versions of competing perspectives. A good professor, on the other hand, especially in the social sciences and humanities, will challenge students’ views even if he or she happens to agree with them. A good professor’s goal is not to convert students but to prod them to think.

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