Glad to hear you're happy with your education in France. But... First: The article is about the U.K., not the U.S., so I'm not sure why you're bemoaning the st

Glad to hear you're happy with your education in France. But... First: The article is about the U.K., not the U.S., so I'm not sure why you're bemoaning the state of U.S. education here. Second: >I come from France, I had a better education than you can get probably anywhere in the world (I went to les Mines de Paris, roughly equivalent to the top 10% of MIT), and EVERYTHING, since I was 5 years old, was free and based on merit. This leads to people with degrees actually being much more performant in the workplace. I am 100% sure this study would have opposite results in France, as it is very easy to look at what the alumni of my school go to become. This is not very persuasive. One could run the same line of argument about American (or Chinese, or British, etc.) universities, since in the U.S., like France and most other places, it remains the case that college graduates earn much more than their peers without college education, and even more so (sometimes dramatically) at elite universities. But apparently this just doesn't necessarily translate into success at Ernst & Young.