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And, that's blamed on going to college? Or, is it the general loose morals of the college campus? What you quoted isn't Santorum making any anti-education statement.
He's explaining why he's against colleges and the worst part is that his statistic isn't even true 
He's against colleges that indoctrinate with left wind ideology. He's against people funding those colleges who hold different beliefs.
I have no supporting proof for the stat, which is fine because I didn't use it. But, do you have credible proof the stat isn't true?
Santorum, Feb. 26: You know the statistic that at least I was familiar with from a few years ago — I don't know if it still holds true but I suspect it may even be worse - that 62% of kids who enter college with some sort of faith commitment leave without it.
Santorum made the claim more forcefully at a Jan. 25 appearance in Naples, Fla., where he said "you know 62% of children who enter college with a faith conviction leave without it." He also encouraged people to not give money to colleges.
But Santorum's claims are off base. Those not attending college were more likely to stop going to religious services and to report they no longer had a religious affiliation than their college-going cohorts, according to data cited in a 2007 report published by the Social Science Research Council and unearthed by PBS. (We asked the Santorum campaign if this was indeed the report to which the former Pennsylvania senator was referring, but we have not received a response.)
The report said: "Contrary to our own and others' expectations, however, young adults who never enrolled in college are presently the least religious young Americans." Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the authors wrote, showed that "64% of those currently enrolled in a traditional four-year institution have curbed their attendance habits." But the figure was higher for those not in college. "Yet, 76% of those who never enrolled in college report a decline in religious service attendance."
Santorum doesn't say whether young adults later on, in their years after college, start going to church more frequently — but that's exactly what the authors of the 2007 report expect. They wrote that many Americans' religious expression drops off in young adulthood and picks back up again as they get older. "The climb back into regular or semi-regular religious practice — if it occurs at all, and it usually does — is often stimulated by marriage and childbearing."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-02-27/fact-check-santorum-college-faith/53274624/1
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