Oh Flying Pink Unicorns, I just saw this. Rick Santorum doesn't want kids to get a college education.
On the president's efforts to boost college attendance, Santorum said, "I understand why Barack Obama wants to send every kid to college, because of their indoctrination mills, absolutely ... The indoctrination that is going on at the university level is a harm to our country."
He claimed that "62 percent of kids who go into college with a faith commitment leave without it," but declined to cite a source for the figure. And he floated the idea of requiring universities that receive public funds have "intellectual diversity" on campus.
Intellectual diversity on campus? What does that mean? I strongly suspect that it means as President he would work to get a bill passed that would require colleges to teach the right-wing "made-up stuff" alongside scientific and historical facts.
I don't know where Santorum got the '62% of the religious kids lose their faith in college' poll but it seems any rational human being would understand that colleges aren't "indoctrination mills," they educate kids, and education and facts are like Krytonite to myths and lies which the fundamentalist religions are based on. Of COURSE a lot of fundamentalist-indoctrinated kids will become less religious by the time they graduate.
But isn't that what we want in America, an educated populace who are able to evaluate ideas and think for themselves instead of being told what to think by some crazy preacher or some celibate bishop?
Education, the Kryptonite to Made-Up Stuff.
--Trakker
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