Rick Santorum, current republican presidential candidate and former united states senator from Pennsylvania, said that the political left uses colleges and universities for ‘indoctrination’ while speaking at the First Baptist Church in Naples, Florida on Wednesday, Jan. 25.
Santorum further argued that institutions of higher learning would receive no funding if they taught judeo-christian principles. By teaching radical secular ideology, Santorum contends that schools are thus given government backing.
Santorum said public schools are failing in large part because they don’t address individual needs, strengths, and weaknesses; instead, he said, they emphasize uniformity. He proposed a turn toward the customization of education.
During a speech at the University of Iowa last May, Santorum said the public school system in America is failing because schools do not address an individual’s needs, strengths or weaknesses. Santorum said they instead emphasize uniformity. He proposed a turn toward the customization of education. Going after President Obama and his administration, Santorum then stated that the current government’s efforts are woefully ineffective and fiscally wasteful. Santorum likened the current system to an industrial factory by saying that “big institutions have been won over by the left,” referring to the country’s public-school system and health care.
In early January, during an event in Manchester, N.H., Santorum called out President Obama for his “hubris” and “snobbery” for proclaiming that all children in America should get a college education.
“I was so outraged by the president of the United States for standing up and saying every child in America should go to college,” Santorum said. “Well who are you? Who are you to say that every child in America should [go to college]? I mean, the hubris of this president to think that he knows what’s best. I have seven kids. Maybe they will all go to college. But if one of my kids wants to go and be an auto-mechanic, good for him. That’s a good paying job: using your hands, using your mind. This is the kind of snobbery that we see from those who think they know how to run our lives. Rise up America, defend your own freedoms. And overthrow these folks who think they know how to orchestrate every aspect of your lives.”
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