Obama rebukes Santorum on college 'snob' remarks

I couldn't believe my ears on this one. I know Santorum has said some crazy stuff in the past but this one is the mega load of stupidity!

it's so opposite to everything we tell our kids... and my parents told me. "go to college" Now this radical fool wants everyone to be uneducated and work for min wage. Wow that's a great plan for America's future......not

well written - thank you

very informative. rated up.

Education is not only needed for work skills but also it enables living arts.So wages for hours for educated and non-educated should not be matter of discussed which is not really suitable for American Society.If Mr. Rick wants to make works through uneducated he can hire such HR from least developing countries. Education is not for work but better understandings of lives.

Education is not for only higher earning but also for better understandings of lives. Its if he Mr. Rick expressed why he kept surprising !

The failure chain that leads to the need for college degrees for everyone starts in elementary school. We need to get back to teaching the basics early, in the traditional way. Today, the basics would include elementary computer concepts as well as the traditional subjects, but teaching only the new things, without first teaching basic reading, writing and arithmetic is utter stupidity, whose consequences we now see all too clearly in this mad push for college degrees for everyone. The manager of a big department store can earn well into six digits annually, and no one can tell me that that position requires a college degree for any reason other than that the company knows that nowadays people without a college degree don't have even a basic education. There is no knowledge component of a college degree that is needed for the job of store manager that cannot be taught in high school, if the schools cared enough to teach their students properly. Many jobs which now require a college degree were done in the past by people with good high school educations in trade and technical subjects. All these two-year colleges are really only remedial education institutions, doing the job that the high schools should be doing but don't do anymore, because they only care about stroking their students egos, making them feel good about themselves instead of teaching them that true self-esteem comes from a sense of real accomplishment, through effort and achievement. In this sense, Santorum does have a point, but it applies more to the college education of the 1950's and '60's, not to the situation today, which forces college on nearly everyone as their only hope for a decent life.

itobin53,by this time, the American voters already knew Rick Santorum. The knew him as a candidate without a comprehensive program of government. Rate you up.

I'm watching your Republican circus from Canada & I must say it's the best entertainment EVER! We have some whack-jobs in office up here, but the guys you have running for the GOP nomination are the best. How any American voter could not see through these guys is beyond me. I get the sense, that although Ron Paul is out-there, at least he isn't pandering to gain power & he has been consistent; but the rest of the herd....unbelievable. Santorum has got to be the best....no birth control & no college education. He's Fred Flintstone in a sweater vest. To all those Republicans...it's a great show....& fuuuuunnnny!!

so right. too bad they dont think about how foolish they look to the rest of the world. How odd - they went to college, right?

Higher education faculty and senior management snobs deny qualified Californians admission to University of California Berkeley. UC Berkeley (UCB) pulls back access and affordability to instate Californians. Chancellor Robert J Birgeneau displaces Californians qualified for public Cal. with a $50,600 payment from born abroad foreign and out of state affluent students. And, foreign and out of state tuition is subsidized in the guise of diversity while instate tuition/fees are doubled.

UCB is not increasing enrollment. Birgeneau accepts $50,600 foreign students and displaces qualified instate Californians (When depreciation of Calif. funded assets are included (as they should be), out of state and foreign tuition is more than $100,000 + and does NOT subsidize instate tuition). Like Coaches, Chancellors Who Do Not Measure-Up Must Go.

More recently, Chancellor Birgeneau’s campus police deployed violent baton jabs on Cal. students protesting Birgeneau’s tuition increases. The sky will not fall when Birgeneau and his $450,000 salary are ousted. Opinions make a difference; email UC Board of Regents marsha.kelman@ucop.edu

I guess Santorum is the real snob here. He went to college, and I'll bet his kids will be going to college.

Let's not forget how much the Republicans HATE education. ^_^