Princeton professor warns new students against 'groupthink and conformism' - News Summed Up

Princeton professor warns new students against 'groupthink and conformism'


A Princeton University professor who signed an open letterencouraging incoming college freshmen to "think for yourself" told Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Wednesday that "you cannot seek the truth if you're a conformist." "We’re telling our students not to fall into that groupthink," Professor Robert P. George told host Tucker Carlson. It’s learning to pursue the truth and it’s learning to become a life-long truth seeker." "At many colleges and universities ... it leads [students] to suppose that dominant views are so obviously correct that only a bigot or a crank could question them." "We’re trying to tell our students, 'Don’t fall for it.


Source: Fox News August 31, 2017 01:30 UTC



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