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The main difference is that Europe education also comes with thousand of strings attached. In Spain for instance, it isn’t really free (though it’s cheap compa

The main difference is that Europe education also comes with thousand of strings attached. In Spain for instance, it isn’t really free (though it’s cheap compared to the US, around 2.8-3k$/y) but you absolutely get what you are paying for. I know people who where on meetings deciding the country-wide “update” to the curriculum, and the main reason for vetoing new topics was that it displaced outdated topics for which college X had an expert that was “too old to learn new things, but young enough that he had at least a decade before retiring” (their words).

igorkraw 5y ago
"Europe" doesn't exist for these purposes, the countries vary wildly, with the only thing that stays constant being that it won't by default saddle you with crushing student debt like the US. The UK has been steadily increasing fees, while e.g. Germany, Norway and Denmark pay you for studying, with the German voters successfully lobbying against attempts to introduce fees while I was studying. The German university system at least is also quite robust and egalitarian in the sense that there are many avenues into university and it is truly free - whole also being high quality (in my opinion). Where Germany is comparatively behind I'd secondary education - the three tier system sucks and I can't wait until the Finnish system properly takes over this continent. Health care and university education are things that Europe just does systematically more efficient than the US in the sense of cheaply providing high quality to lots of people. Research I'd be open to debate and business it has to be said the US is miles ahead of e.g. Germany (I'm so jealous of California's NDA and employee IP laws)