“Stand Up For Education!”
By Terrence Cain
This week has been really light due to test taking and classes being cancelled for unknown reasons, so there really isn't much to say about my classes this week. That's okay though because I feel that I need to discuss something here that may get me into a lot of trouble, but I feel is necessary because I found it extremely offensive and degrading when I heard a particular speech this past Sunday on NBC's “Meet The Press” with David Gregory.
On Sunday former Pennsylvania senator, Rick Santorum, appeared yet again on “Meet The Press” and talked his usual spiel about a whole host of subjects. All of which were extremely inflammatory and offensive to me and probably a lot of others as well. The one thing that got to me the most though was a video clip shown of Mr. Santorum putting down higher education. He referred to President Obama as an “elitist snob” because the president would like to see everyone go to college. The way that Mr. Santorum was talking he made it sound like the president had signed some kind of “educational draft” into law forcing everyone to go to college. He further insulted education by insinuating that all college professors are “liberals” and that they're brainwashing us with the “Obama doctrine.”
By the time the clip ended I was both sick to my stomach and totally outraged by all the inflammatory, incendiary, vulgar, and offensive language that Mr. Santorum was using to tell the people listening to him at this town-hall meeting that people don't need an education. Are you kidding me? Everyone needs an education, Mr. Santorum. Even in the most basic of jobs people need to have an education.
I know many a people who have gone to a junior college just to learn how to weld properly, or how to be a mechanic, or to run an automated machine at the local power plant. There are even programs to teach you how to grow plants properly so that you can run an efficient farm or do landscaping. Has Mr. Santorum met U.S. History professor Tommy Tune here at Howard College in Big Spring, Texas? I surely doubt that he has because I know Prof. Tune would find your statements highly offensive in calling him a “liberal” and insinuating that he's been brainwashing his students on behalf of any president, let alone President Obama.
I think it is downright disgusting for a man who has a law degree, and running for the office of president, to be telling people that the current president is essentially “evil” just because he's made it easier for everyone to go to college and even further nerve-racking to insinuate that the president is trying to “brainwash” people by encouraging them to get a higher education.
Now I'm not trying to tell any of you out there reading this how to vote in the Texas primary on May 29th, but if you are offended by what Mr. Santorum said about education not being important and that we're all being brainwashed by “liberal professors” then do as I will and vote for one of the other three candidates on May 29th to send Mr. Santorum the message that his kind of rhetoric towards colleges and universities is not something you will tolerate from your elected officials. This is Howard College's blogging machine, over and out!
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