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Yes, if all you do is produce some good scientists, win a few gold medals, and your people starve in oppression and poverty, that is a pretty big failure. Also
by jollybean 6y ago
Yes, if all you do is produce some good scientists, win a few gold medals, and your people starve in oppression and poverty, that is a pretty big failure.
Also, throughout that time and even now the US produces amazing scientists and also has the means for them to 'do stuff'.
FYI I'm not American, I understand these things are far from perfect. I'm mostly harking back to the notion of 'standardized test and ABC school as elite' is probably not so good. America is open enough that even though some industries are chock-a-block Ivy League, many are not.
- bawolff 6y agoI'm not saying that the soviet union was a paradise, far from it, just that its weird for someone to describe creating good scientists as a "failure" when talking about educational systems. That's not to say that it might not have other flaws, i just struggle to see how creating scientists itself is a flaw.