From Inside Higher Ed:
…The Tampa Bay Times' PolitiFact news service is reporting
that (Rick) Santorum -- since 2008 -- has linked higher education to the work
of Satan. In a 2008 talk at Ave Maria University, Santorum discussed the way
Satan has attacked "great institutions of America." Where did Satan start? According to Santorum,
"The place where he was, in my mind, the most successful and first --
first successful was in academia. He understood pride of smart people. He attacked
them at their weakest. They were in fact smarter than everybody else and could
come up with something new and different -- pursue new truths, deny the
existence of truth, play with it because they’re smart. And so academia a long
time ago fell."…
Full story: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/02/27/santorums-views-higher-education-and-satan
And you thought the
devil was just in the details. Or was it the elevator?
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