Post by Oscar Knight on Feb 19, 2010 17:22:15 GMT -6
Linder also said the government should “gut” the U.S. Department of Education and change the way education funding reaches students.
“We spend over $200 billion a year on our education department. Our education department has not educated kids since it’s been built,” he said. “We take that money and make scholarships for any kid to go to any college and gut the education department. Use that money for education, but put it right in the kids’ hands so that a 6-year-old in an inner city school can walk in and believe he can be a doctor or a lawyer.”
“We spend over $200 billion a year on our education department. Our education department has not educated kids since it’s been built,” he said. “We take that money and make scholarships for any kid to go to any college and gut the education department. Use that money for education, but put it right in the kids’ hands so that a 6-year-old in an inner city school can walk in and believe he can be a doctor or a lawyer.”