In my humble opinion, the STEM education in the US is not even in the same league as that of EU or Russia. What baffles me the most is, not only the education

In my humble opinion, the STEM education in the US is not even in the same league as that of EU or Russia. What baffles me the most is, not only the education is lacking some of the most basic items but it's self perceived as world class. That perception extends out of the US, at least it did to me at some point. The mirage of the ARPA funding during the sixties and its undoubtedly success still resonates deeply, but the H1-B system and gaming it's only a canary of a deeper problem: the education system in the US is not on par with the rest of the western world anymore, possibly for the last twenty years. And indeed the public is not ready to even acknowledge it, much less to pay for it.