Brazil has a lot to learn from the US too. Feynman pointed out (in the 50s!) that our universities don't teach science. Brazilians schools are geared towards g

Brazil has a lot to learn from the US too. Feynman pointed out (in the 50s!) that our universities don't teach science. Brazilians schools are geared towards getting people into university. And Brazilian universities are terrible at teaching science. Those who don't get to college are left with very little; US high schools, on the other hand, prepare for life, to put it poetically. And it's not lack of money, because Uruguay is about as rich as Brazil and rates higher than Germany and Japan in the UN Education Index. Very few get into engineering. At graduation, you might see 100 people getting degrees in law, and 6 in engineering. This lack of skills is already hindering Brazil's growth and I just can't see how a country can be as rich as Germany, for instance, with uneducated people.