Rick Santorum: Left uses college for "indoctrination"

[maddezmom]

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said Wednesday that "the left" uses universities to indoctrinate young people for the purpose of "holding and maintaining power."


After saying "we've lost, unfortunately, our entertainment industry," Santorum told a Naples, Florida, audience that "we've lost our higher education, that was the first to go a long time ago."



"It's no wonder President Obama wants every kid to go to college," said the former Pennsylvania senator. "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 that there wasn't one penny of government dollars going to colleges and universities, right?"


He continued: "If they taught Judeo-Christian principles in those colleges and universities, they would be stripped of every dollar. If they teach radical secular ideology, they get all the government support that they can possibly give them. Because you know 62 percent of children who enter college with a faith conviction leave without it."

more if you can stomach it :
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57366219-503544/rick-santorum-left-uses-college-for-indoctrination/?tag=re1.galleries

[baldguy]

1. Let's do away with reality-based education!

PI doesn't approximate 3.14159. The Bible say Pi EQUALS 3.2!

[JaneQPublic]

2. Look for the Religious Right to start a "Home Colleging" movement. (nt)

[izquierdista]

3. If they taught "Judeo-Christian principles"....

we would still be in the Dark Ages, with maps that say "There be monsters" around the edges.

[Nikia]

4. There are a fair amount of colleges teaching "Judeo-Christian principles"

They are usually affiliated with a religious organization. Thousands of students use Federal financial aid to attend these colleges. Religious students can choose to attend these colleges.
I attended a non religious college and there was a variety of religious changes in students. Yes, some students did lose their faith. Some became non religious. Others converted to different religions, including various Christian denominations. Some who were never religious before became religious. More than anything that was taught in classes, I think that a lot of these changes were caused by exposure to people who believed differently than themselves. For many students, college is the first time in their life that they can be free to choose who they want to be rather than going along with the beliefs of their family and community.

[pinto]

5. Ah geez. McCarthy in a sweater vest is still McCarthy.

[TomClash]

6. Don't they teach Judeo-Christian principles . . .

. . . at Fordham, Yeshiva, Brandeis, Georgetown, Notre Dame and many other schools?

In fact, can't you take theology/religious philosophy courses at just about every college?

Aren't there scores of postsecondary schools (i.e., Liberty) teaching conservative religious principles?

[Turbineguy]

7. Threatened by critical thought are we?

[Ikonoklast]

8. I see 'Ol Frothy is barking at the Moon again.

Anti-intellectualism runs strong through Fundamentalists because critical thinking skills and logic are the enemy of all revealed religions.

Keeping 'em stupid, fearful, and under the thumb of the religious hucksters is part and parcel of Republicanism.

[countingbluecars]

9. So which is it Republicans?

Obama wants to keep people on food stamps or Obama wants every kid to go to college? What's the key to maintaining power? I heard both in the last week.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

11. His plan is so brilliant and devious

even the Republicans are confused?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. Which college(s)?

Liberty University? Bob Jones University? Oh wait, he was referring to left-wing colleges. Which one(s) are those again?

[morningfog]

12. Alright. When is he going to drop out. It was entertaining to mock his bigotry and stupidity

for a while. It is getting disgusting. He should no longer have a position to spew his hate speech.

[Douglas Carpenter]

13. "the fiifth column of the insane" - to quote Frank Schaeffer's phrase

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. You really have to ask: Why Does Santorum Hate America?

That really is the only response possible to:

Santorum went on to encourage his audience not to "give money" to colleges and universities that he said are causing harm to the country.

"I'll bet you there are people in this room who give money to colleges and universities who are undermining the very principles of our country every single day by indoctrinating kids with left-wing ideology," he said. "And you continue to give to these colleges and universities. Let me have a suggestion: Stop it."

Really, telling people that education is evil and should be stopped is about the most harmful thing a candidate could do to a country. There's not even a "it's public taxes that you have no choice about" argument that a right wing fiscal hawk might make; it's a pure "knowledge is evil - don't encourage it" claim.

[LeftishBrit]

21. For its freedoms, of course!

Through the ages, one of the main things that tyrants and autocrats have had in common is the desire either to limit education to the elites, and thus to ensure that ordinary people 'stay in their place'; or, where this is not possible, or contradicts other goals like creating a high-tech society, to control and censor the content of public education so that the public only learn what the people in power want them to learn.

Access to uncensored public education is as much a key part of democracy as voting is. If elected, Santorum would attempt to bring America back to a pre-democracy age. I assume he won't be elected, but it is truly frightening that someone of his views has so much influence.

[and-justice-for-all]

15. Sorry, I want to learn things that are relevant and real...

not why I should stone someone to death or that the Flintstones were real.

Theocracy, bad for the world.

[davidpdx]

16. Well if universities are indoctrinations

as Santorum claims, then call me brainwashed.

I have:

BA Speech Communications
Masters in Business Administration

and...I'm currently working on a Doctorate of Business Administration.

[ellisonz]

17. I confess...

My college's unofficial motto was "Atheism, Communism, Free Love." Rick Santorum must think we're the devil.

I shit you not...

[Kath1]

18. "Don't let your kids go to college...

...they might become (gasp!) Liberals!"

[DeeDeeNY]

19. Maybe not indoctrination, but higher education certainly doesn't make you smart

Santorum is living proof of that. He holds a BA from Penn State, an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, and a JD from the Dickinson School of Law.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/highly-educated-rick-santorum-comes-out-against-co

[Bake]

20. Kind of like what the right wing does with churches, Little Ricky?

Indoctrination, indeed.

Bake

[MANative]

22. That's the whole idea and goal of conservatism...

And why they do everything possible to limit funding for education at every level. Keep people ignorant, uneducated, uninformed, malleable, (you pick the next synonym!) and ultimately, controllable by the few who can afford to be educated - which at some point, will be only those in the top 1%.

I've always believed that the more educated one is, the more likely he or she is to be progressive or liberal. Knowledge, like the truth, tends to have a liberal bias.

[Tippy]

23. Rick Santorum is so full of shit his eyes are brown.....