Rick Santorum Says College is 'Indoctrination'; We Say It's Necessary

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Presidential candidate Rick Santorum has really gone after higher education lately. Earlier this month, he called President Obama's suggestion that everyone should go to college "elitist snobbery." Now, he's speaking out in response to Obama's State of the Union education plans:

It’s no wonder President Obama wants every kid go to go college... The indoctrination that occurs in American universities is one of the keys to the left holding and maintaining power in America. And it is indoctrination. If it was the other way around, the ACLU would be out there making sure there wasn’t one penny of government dollars going to colleges and universities, right?

Let's get one thing straight: Rick Santorum is about as educated as you can possibly get, and not from insular religious institutions, either. He got himself a bachelor's degree from Penn State. Then a M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh. Then he went back to Penn State to get his law degree. Would he be a millionaire running for president if he hadn't gotten those degrees?


Even Santorum must know that college isn't just a place the left goes in order to maintain power; it's a necessary stepping-stone to get a good job, now more than ever. And, of course, educated people make more money. In 2009, the median annual income of a young college-educated adult was $45,000, while a young person with just a high school diploma made $21,000.


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[Turbineguy]

1. Here's an even better idea, moron:

Don't even teach children to read. Fox will be happy to set up a special channel for them.

[rurallib]

10. Agree 100%. it will also cut costs and bust unions

a win, win, win as the Repugs would say.

[jody]

2. IMO college is a waste of time if it does not prepare students for jobs that will be available upon

graduation.

My assertion is only for those students who expect college to prepare them for a career and in no way is meant to demean those, who like me, view college for intellectual pursuits and other purposes.

[HockeyMom]

3. Of course, Liberals don't have children

so they can't "indoctrinate" them. Liberals are made from Conservatives families kids going to LIBERAL COLLEGES. Do they believe in the Tooth Fairy too?

[zbdent]

9. You're right ... liberals don't have children ...

they're too busy birthing multiple welfare minority babies that were aborted ... (if you think that concept is convoluted ... you're right ... but it's apparently the mindset that conservatives have ... that liberals are aborting every fetus, yet having multiple babies just to collect the welfare money for having excessive children).

[liberal N proud]

4. People who think on their own tend to be liberal thinking

That is contrary to the GOP base. They are not allowed to think on their own.

Religion keep the GOP base indoctrinated.

[d_r]

5. There are several specifically right wing universities

I can't think of a single specifically left wing one. Not one.

If colleges have a liberal bias, it is for the same reason other things do - because reality has a liberal bias. Because intelligence has a liberal bias. Because, as some have stated, free and open thinking has a liberal bias. Indoctrination is the product of right wing universities, period.

[Ilsa]

6. Yes, wasn't there a study recently that showed

That conservatives tend to have less education? Ignorance leads to conservative thought processes; development of critical thinking skills leads one to liberal thinking.

[northoftheborder]

7. yes, period.

[pangaia]

8. Well Antioch might fit the bill, if it still in business...

[xfundy]

11. It's all about that apple tree in the garden of eden!

What was that tree called? .... Oh, yes, the "Tree of Knowledge." Where a talking snake made Eve eat the apple. Up to that moment, animals didn't eat each other or fight. And Adam had named every animal!

"'Mmfriends, edyoocayshun is EVILLLL!" </cancervative>

The problem is that institutes of higher learning don't teach WHAT to think, like Pat Robertson's fool factory. College teaches HOW to think, and, shit, cancervatives don't like that one bit!