Rick Santorum Quotes

From the earliest European universities, the conservative elements of the society has always felt that the universities were hotbeds of liberalism. Generally, the more education anyone obtains, the less he/she is susceptible to doctrine and control by others. However, far from liberal indoctrination, the leading conservative—including those like Santorum who castigate the universities, are themselves the products of the so called “indoctrination”. Generally, conservatives have tended to use the instruments of government and the access to wealth to control and shape the range of the political dialogue. In most societies, the University is a place where there is a much broader range of points of view available. In many nations today, the universities are censored, suspected, controlled by the establishment of the society to avoid rapid change which by definition, conservatives oppose.

He was referring to Erich Hermann Wilhelm V̦gelin; [January 3, 1901 РJanuary 19, 1985) was political philosopher. He was born in Cologne, and educated in political science at the University of Vienna, at which he became an associate professor of political science at the Faculty of Law. In 1938 he and his wife fled from the Nazi forces which had entered Vienna, and emigrated to the United States, where they became citizens in 1944. He spent most of his academic career at the University of Notre Dame, Louisiana State University, the University of Munich and the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. He was a very elitist intellectual who was a favorite of Conservatives. A number of his accomplished students, however were very egalitarian and were active liberals and populists. America is one of the few countries and cultures in the world where political, religious and philosophical views do not get passed from one generation to the next by family and teachers. America's freedom has been not only legal freedom but has stimulated cultural freedom as well, sometimes to the distress of older generations who want their values and ideas preserved and transmitted through the c=generations.

There has always been in America a subpopulation which has distrusted intellectuals and educated people. The bias against intellectuals and well educated people ebbs and flows but it is always present. In this 1920 quotation the suspicion was there as today but did not have the name calling that tended to accompany this bias in the latter part of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st. Some of the bias is in reaction to a snobbishness that has been exhibited by some intellectuals, but the bias against intellectuals is generally strongest amongst the least educated groups in America. The South in particular has tended to have the weakest educational systems and institutions, and the vast majority of intellectuals were against the Southern racism and discrimination that used to prevail so extensively, and the vestige of anti intellectualism is still there despite the fact that the gap between Southern education and institutions is nowhere near as large as it used to be. Religious fundamentalists also are generally more distrustful of intellectuals as even where the intellectuals are religious they tend to be modernists and not fundamentalists. And of course, liberal and conservative intellectuals constantly accuse the other group of dominating the intellectual agenda.

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