Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said on Monday that more people should go to college, walking back from comments made by presidential candidate Rick Santorum, who has been critical of the president and his support of higher education, the National Journal reports. At a campaign event on Saturday, Santorum echoed his criticism of President Obama’s initiative to get more people to go to college, calling him a “snob.” He said that one of the president’s motivations was to indoctrinate the students, through liberal professors, to remake them “into his image.”
Although he said that education policy should be made more at the local and state level, Walker stepped back from that criticism with a moderate approach to college education…
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