{"id":5936,"date":"2012-01-27T10:51:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T15:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=5936"},"modified":"2012-01-27T10:51:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T15:51:33","slug":"rick-santorums-educational-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/01\/rick-santorums-educational-hypocrisy.html","title":{"rendered":"Rick Santorum’s Educational Hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Lots of people have mentioned Rick Santorum\u2019s outrageous anti-education statement<\/a>. He said<\/a>, \u201cIt\u2019s no wonder President Obama wants every kid to go college\u2026the indoctrination that occurs in American universities is one of the keys to the left holding and maintaining power in America. And it is indoctrination.\u201d\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

I particularly appreciated Steve Wiggins\u2019 comments, which highlight that the allegedly terrible indoctrinating university educational experience is one that Santorum himself has pursued and profited from<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Santorum earned a Bachelor of Arts, with honors, from the wicked, indoctrinating Pennsylvania State University. He then succumbed again to the indoctrination when he, apparently accidentally, earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Pittsburgh. Somehow he stumbled onto a J.D. with honors from Dickinson School of Law. A man this indoctrinated, I say, has no business being president\u2026It is harder to get educated people to march in goose-step with everybody else. Talk about indoctrination! Vote for me, because I will keep you safe from the horrors of an education of which I couldn\u2019t stop my self from taking advantage. Don\u2019t send your kids to law school. There can be real danger even in sending them to grammar school, for there they learn to spell. I wonder, if in the course of earning his three degrees, Mr. Santorum ever learned to spell the word \u201chypocrite.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bob Cargill makes a similar point<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s almost comical: Evangelicals don\u2019t want kids to go to America\u2019s top colleges because they\u00a0might actually learn<\/em> something besides a fundamentalist, conservative, literalist, theologically-laced worldview, which often leads to a biblically defended suppression of the civil rights of groups that don\u2019t look and\/or think like they do. So, from a very early age, they encourage like-minded people to isolate and insulate their kids from any point of view other than their own by placing kids in home schools, private (approved conservative) Christian schools, conservative Christian colleges, and if they\u00a0do <\/em>attend graduate school, they often receive some fantastic degree in education, physics, and applied scripture from Southern Evangelical Theological Seminary (I made this title up. If it does exist, my point has only been further underscored.)<\/p>\n

So just to clarify:<\/p>\n

Public school:<\/strong> Liberal indoctrination<\/p>\n

Home school:<\/strong> NOT<\/em> indoctrination<\/p>\n

Public High School:<\/strong> Liberal indoctrination<\/p>\n

Christian High School:<\/strong> NOT<\/em> indoctrination<\/p>\n

Public or Ivy League university:<\/strong> Liberal indoctrination<\/p>\n

Christian College:<\/strong> NOT<\/em> indoctrination<\/p>\n

R1 Research Graduate School:<\/strong> Liberal indoctrination<\/p>\n

Evangelical Theological Seminary:<\/strong> NOT<\/em> indoctrination<\/p>\n

I shake my head.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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