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Rick Santorum: Left uses college for "indoctrination"
Rick Santorum: Left uses college for "indoctrination"
January 25, 2012 5:47 PM
By Brian Montopoli
"It's no wonder President Obama wants every kid to go to college," said the former Pennsylvania senator. "The indoctrination that occurs in American universities is one of the keys to the left holding and maintaining power in America. And it is indoctrination. If it was the other way around, the ACLU would be out there making sure that there wasn't one penny of government dollars going to colleges and universities, right?"
He continued: "If they taught Judeo-Christian principles in those colleges and universities, they would be stripped of every dollar. If they teach radical secular ideology, they get all the government support that they can possibly give them. Because you know 62 percent of children who enter college with a faith conviction leave without it."
Santorum went on to encourage his audience not to "give money" to colleges and universities that he said are causing harm to the country.
And this guy was a senator.
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Do you think the percentage is really that high? I'm thinking that even if college grads have let their religious practice fall off during that time, they probably come back to it when the get married or settle down as they say, or become Republicans.
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I think college is used for indoctrination but not for the reasons Rick mentioned. I have a very good friend that was a devote Christian in HS and after he graduate Uni, he told me he was questioning his faith. There were lots of things that happened to him in Uni so I can't really say it was one thing but I think when you're in college, you mix with lots of different people and culture. This opens you to new ideas and if you've been sheltered by the church all your life, you'll start to see things from a different perspective. That and the fact that they teach science in uni.
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Re: Rick Santorum: Left uses college for "indoctrination"
in·doc·tri·nate
verb (used with object), in·doc·tri·nat·ed, in·doc·tri·nat·ing.
1. to instruct in a doctrine, principle, ideology, etc., especially to imbue with a specific partisan or biased belief or point of view.
2. to teach or inculcate.
3. to imbue with learning.
I tend to agree with that first definition, but I agree with Princeton's definition even more:
teaching someone to accept doctrines uncritically
Saying someone is indoctrinated with a secular education is like saying someone was converted to atheism. We are all born without theistic beliefs, so it's the conversion that removes our atheism, and de-conversion reverses that conversion and brings us back to atheism. Likewise, education can often reverse the effects of indoctrination, and isn't an act of indoctrination itself.
Education teaches people to think critically. It's not that the colleges are setting out to make students stop believing the doctrines they were taught. It's simply the result of being exposed to new ideas that the church shelters them from, realizing that these new ideas conflict with what they were taught previously, and deciding to follow the evidence instead of disregarding it.
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