Rick Santorum is either a complete dumbass or an unrepentant liar. His claims about presidents home schooling their kids for the first 150 years of the United States are just plain wrong.
Support for public education goes back to the very beginnings of this country and was espoused by Thomas Jefferson in his 1779 "A Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge" in the Virginia legislature.
whence it becomes expedient for promoting the publick happiness that those person, whom nature hath endowed with genius and virtue, should be rendered by liberal education worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens, and that they should be called to that charge without regard to wealth, birth or other accidental condition or circumstance; but the indigence of the greater number disabling them from so educating, at their own expence, those of their children whom nature hath fitly formed and disposed to become useful instruments for the public, it is better that such should be sought for and educated at the common expence of all
http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/bill-more-general-diffusion-knowledge
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Santorum flunks the history of home-schooling
The poorly educated candidate says U.S. presidents taught their kids at home for 150 years. He's wrong
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Isn't the first thing he's gotten wrong. It amazes me everyday that he's even in this race….
Rick Santorum a species all of his own, he clearly didn't evolve and most certainly wasn't created by any form of intelligent design….
I wonder if the reason he is winning primaries is due to democrats voting for him. I can't believe that people would actually like him.
+Charles Burney Democrats can't vote in the Republican primaries.
Since I can't seem to edit that comment… That being said, (above) I'm even more worried that it seems like he's got some genuine support.
+Jonathan Pickel in TN you get to choose which primary you want to vote in. In a year when one party has no opposition, they will vote for whom they consider the weakest candidate of the other party.
Really? That's fucked up, and probably why Florida limits participation in primaries to folks registered as R or D respectively.
Yeah it can skew things.