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The main cultural difference is that Americans don’t value maths and physics as much as they value law and business. Harvard Law school is still the thing you a
by d--b 2y ago
The main cultural difference is that Americans don’t value maths and physics as much as they value law and business. Harvard Law school is still the thing you aim for when you’re a smart kid. MIT is what you aim when you’re good AND you’re really into it.
In France, the top thing to do is go to Polytechnique, which is an engineer school created by Napoleon. So culturally French people push their kids towards learning maths.
- 082349872349872 2y agothe provenance is unclear, but somehow Napoleon wound up with both a construction problem and a theorem to his name (if your kid has neither aptitude nor taste for maths, what do you do? push them towards ENA?)
- d--b 2y ago> if your kid has neither aptitude nor taste for maths, what do you do? push them towards ENA? Usually business school, HEC is the second highest viewed thing. ENA is something you may do later, either after political science studies, or after polytechnique, or business school.
- antupis 2y agoIt is so interesting that those are always so country-specific here in Finland it is Medicine and industrial management.