and not just as to higher education. The Santorums appear to be on that homeschooling bandwagon:http://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/santorum-ill-home-school-in-the-white-house.

They see all forms of secular education as indoctrination. I'd argue it's the absence of indoctrination they're actually objecting to, but I guess that's another matter.

It's the Know-Nothings all over again.

and quite a few not easily classified. None ever expected me to regurgitate their beliefs by rote but all expected me to master the class material. If Thorstein Veblen was the topic, Milton Friedman wasn't the answer. However, as they expected me to know the topic, I wasn't required to believe the topic -- but it was my responsibility to intelligently defend any contrary belief I held.

I believe those who protest the most about a professor's "slant" are the one's least able to support their own. They're not protesting a professor's restriction of their academic freedom so much as they're reacting to their own academic frustration.

That, and their opinion appears to be smeared with santorum.

were a thousand-year Mormon dude and his archnemesis, a raging alcoholic.

College kicked ass.