Ron DeSantis: “We obviously want our universities to be focused on critical thinking…”

On the recordJune 23, 2021

We obviously want our universities to be focused on critical thinking, academic rigor. We do not want them as basically hotbeds for stale ideology.

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Ron DeSantis emphasizes the need for universities to promote critical thinking rather than ideological conformity.

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