Your Latest Santorum: Education Indoctrinates Kids

Rudy

I’m not an American, but I think it’s an unfair account of Santorum’s views. The customary conservative view is that the academic establishment is dominated by the far left, which features outrageous enforcement of PC and mandatory diversity training, and that most college students have no aptitude for higher learning.
Immature snarkiness (‘this is bananas on stilts stuff’) and quoting a friend hardly exhibits a realm of thought. I might as well be reading the Guardian.

Robert Christopher

Maybe Santorum read this:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/college-inc/post/study-two-fifths-of-high-school-graduates-are-unprepared/2011/12/12/gIQArZKnpO_blog.html

I particularly like one of the posts, and the following response:
erinoconnell
10/3/2011 5:19 PM GMT
The fact that the author thinks a college needs to teach basic subjects like civics and economics shows the real problem here: our high schools have become worthless. I learned all of my "basic subjects" in high school, and the point of going to an Ivy League school was to prepare myself for a profession. I am sure Cornell is in the class of colleges that do not require students to take "core courses": instead of studying remedial subjects, we were required to become proficient in at least one foreign language and take courses in other cultures (things that every college should be teaching, of course). What is so wrong with high schools that colleges are now expected to teach things like basic grammar??

sober1
10/3/2011 5:54 PM GMT
You hit the nail on the head there! Colleges are having (apparently) to teach that which the high schools apparently have not. The problems go far beyond our colleges.

Now, where have I heard that before?

Fergus Pickering

But colleges teaching basics is OLD news. They have been doing it for years. And it is the same here. Just as in the UK the rot et in in the mid-eighties but it took twenty-five years for people outside the education business to realise it. The reasons are cultural and have little to do with education as such. It is because everywhere the values of the lower (working) class have been espoused and not those of the middle class. We ape the degraded manners of the UN educated and wish everybody share in the equality of the gutter.

Kennybhoy

Rudy on February 24th, 2012 6:11pm:

Spot on man. Although you are perhaps too kind to Maister M. Dishonest rather than unfair.

Ron Todd

My high school physics teacher told us when presented with an idea, to think how likely is this, what is the proof, how trustworthy are the people proposing it, do they have a personal interest.

Within a year I was an athiest. Good education will reduce the number of religious people.

I am happy with my working class culture. Get only what you work for, support your own people live within your means, try to better yourself and don't put up with snobby liberal middle class twits looking down on you.

Tom Round

Yeah, it's not like Santorum's ideological opponents have the same fear that book-larnin' might be bad for their worldview... "Teach intelligent design as an alternative to evolution? Bring it on! Kids will immediately spot that it's a fraud! Let a hundred flowers bloom!"... - Not.