Santorum: Higher Education a Plot to Secularize America

[hortysir]

This guy can't be real. It all has to be some sort of inside joke.

No one could be this stupid and function...

Blimpo?
Meet Rtard.

I think they really want to end education all together.

(case proved)/

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Santorum: Higher Education a Plot to Secularize America

A ‘plot.’

Consider the idiocy of this ‘plot,’ where anything might compel Americans to give up their religion.

 

[rdean]

Santorum called the President a snob for encouraging Americans to pursue a college eduction.​

Rick Santorum condemns Obama, JFK and higher education Examiner.com

I hardly know where to begin. I believe that he is in step with the majority of Republicans at the USMB.

 

[rdean]

Rick Santorum, however, is doing just that. As far back as December he was calling colleges “indoctrination centres” for the Left, and he has questioned the idea that scientists know what they are talking about

Times Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed: Santorum

And you guys ask why "evolution" over "magical creation" is so important. When you get people who down science, it doesn't stop there.

How are Americans going to compete? The short answer? They won't be able to.

True story.

 

[rdean]

The idea that the government should be running schools goes back to the nation’s founding. Its principal advocate was Thomas Jefferson, who proposed (in Notes on the State of Virginia) that every child be entitled to three years of schooling free of charge (after that, parents had to pay). Horace Mann acted and expanded on Jefferson’s idea starting in the 1830s through his energetic advocacy of publicly-funded education. Mann was appalled by the quality of the “little neighborhood schools” that Santorum rhapsodizes about and he fought to raise standards for the teaching profession and to abolish religious sectarianism from public schools. Prior to the 20th century more than 90 percent of American teenagers didn't go to high school, and whatever “home schooling” they received on the farm was typically limited to learning how to tend animals and plant and harvest crops. Young people were lucky to have a parent who could even read the Bible; as late as 1870 fully 20 percent of the adult U.S. population couldn't read or write. Even if a farmer or his wife were literate, where was he or she supposed to find the time to teach the children much of anything? Education was, by and large, a luxury for the rich.

Where To Begin With Rick Santorum

Currently, you have high tech companies setting up facilities in Penn, La and a few other states. Where will they get the skilled workers? The short answer? They will get educated immigrants. Republicans who applaud their leaders trashing education will get passed over. True story.

 

[PoliticalChic]

That may well be one of the sickest things I've ever heard a presidential candidate say.

Please nominate this guy..... Pretty please.

Really?

How's this for "one of the sickest things I've ever heard a presidential candidate say"?

"The purpose of a university should be to make a son as unlike his father as possible." “The University's Part in Political Life” (13 March 1909) in PWW (The Papers of Woodrow Wilson) 19:99.


Wilson to Obama....a century of Progressives.

 

[Katzndogz]

The purpose of higher education was to impart the tools of critical thinking. To question. Now it's NOT to think at all but to accept the approved answers without question.

 

[rdean]

The purpose of higher education was to impart the tools of critical thinking. To question. Now it's NOT to think at all but to accept the approved answers without question.

Oh no. Now you have a lot of Republicans confused.

 

[Old Rocks]

The cirriculum certainly seems designed to do just that.

For what, which school, what discipline?

 

[Old Rocks]

The purpose of higher education was to impart the tools of critical thinking. To question. Now it's NOT to think at all but to accept the approved answers without question.

Ever thought of taking some yourself? For you really seem to be lacking in the capacity of critical thinking and doing research for yourself. Listening to obese junkies on the radio does not qualify as research.

 

[Old Rocks]

That may well be one of the sickest things I've ever heard a presidential candidate say.

Please nominate this guy..... Pretty please.

Really?

How's this for "one of the sickest things I've ever heard a presidential candidate say"?

"The purpose of a university should be to make a son as unlike his father as possible." “The University's Part in Political Life” (13 March 1909) in PWW (The Papers of Woodrow Wilson) 19:99.


Wilson to Obama....a century of Progressives.

Actually, TR to Obama, a century of Progressives.

 

[blimpo]

All anyone has to do to understand why test scores have dropped is to read some of the posts on this thread.
In reality, test scores haven't fallen. IQ levels have and those people are breeding...

 

[psikeyhackr]

Stupidity must be maintained for the sake of religion.

 

[skipper]

Just another example of the GOP sinking their own ship when I can find a "FOX News" article basically saying Santorum is a load of crap.

Are Santorum's Comments On Higher Ed Out Of Step? | Fox News

 

[starcraftzzz]

Smart people dont vote republican, thats hwy republicans hate schools