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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