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For a country with a dysfunctional university system, the US certainly seems to create a disproportionate share of the good research.
by iskander 16y ago
For a country with a dysfunctional university system, the US certainly seems to create a disproportionate share of the good research.
- bitwize 16y agoThese days, that's mainly because we import so many East Asians, Indians, and Europeans into our postgrad programs.
- pandafood 16y agoWe import them from American universities though. Our high schools are way more broken than our colleges.
- iskander 16y agoThat disconnect has always confused me. How does country manage to maintain the best universities and among the worst high schools in the first world?
- iskander 16y ago"Imports" have always been our research strength :-). Thank you Germany for going all crazy in the 30s giving us an era's worth of top-tier scientists.
- bitwize 16y agoExcept those scientists stayed in America. Today's crop of Chinese and Indian scientists want to go back to China and India.
- yummyfajitas 16y agoThe claim is that the undergraduate education component of the US university system is broken, not that the basic research component of the US university system is broken.