Rick Santorum Says College is 'Indoctrination'; We Say It's Necessary
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:
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
(37,315 posts)Don't even teach children to read. Fox will be happy to set up a special channel for them.
rurallib
(62,406 posts)a win, win, win as the Repugs would say.
jody
(26,624 posts)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
(14,337 posts)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
(35,392 posts)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
(60,334 posts)That is contrary to the GOP base. They are not allowed to think on their own.
Religion keep the GOP base indoctrinated.
d_r
(6,907 posts)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
(61,692 posts)That conservatives tend to have less education? Ignorance leads to conservative thought processes; development of critical thinking skills leads one to liberal thinking.
northoftheborder
(7,572 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)xfundy
(5,105 posts)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!