Im aware of that, but hes trying to prove America is better than Europe and that Europe is going to the dogs, by arguing that America has the best universities in the world but so does the UK. Whut? How does it make any sense to say that nowhere else in the world are universities as good as the American and British ones, so Europe sucks?
Wikipedia contains articles listing countries by per capita income, Human Development Index, and so forth. If you're interested, give it a look.
It is very true that America has some of the best universities in the world. It's our pre-college education that is terrible.
Can you expand that a bit please? Do tell, it what way(s) is the u.K. part of Europe, and it what way(s) not? Or, would you stay with your "glance at a map" contention?
Does this mean he thinks The Sarbonne and the Max Planck Institutes are poor schools?
I'm more inclined to think he is simple ignorant of fine schools across the globe.
I'll take my, chance, here to point out my personal peeve every time American education gets raised as a subject of discussion; there is no such thing as the monolithic entity called "The US Education System". What US secondary education is, is a collection of 50 different state programs. When you talk about them as a collective, you are discussing what is basically the weighted average of 50 entirely separate entities.
There is greatsecondary school education to be found in the US, and there is horrible secondary school education to be found in the US.
For great performers, Massachusetts is an example; when evaluated separately from the bulk of the US, Massachusetts out-paces all nations in international testing of math and science, with the exception of Japan and Singapore (yes, I'm looking at you, Mr./Mrs. Haughty European... you're owned.)
Likewise, we have states that struggle. Mississippi, Arkansas, and some others lack the resources to adequately educate their young people.
I'd challenge any European to find 49 other nations that they could average their education performance numbers with, and still end up meeting or exceeding US averaged results. Just as a "thought exercise", a more accurate comparison of US education to Western Europe would be arrived at by averaging Eastern Europe and North Africa into the EU, and talk about the average quality of education from that geographical entity, as compared to the US.
Sermon over
Does this mean he thinks The Sarbonne
and the Max Planck Institutes are poor schools?
I'm more inclined to think he is simple ignorant of fine schools across the globe.
Did you mean to say "La Sorbonne", as in the University of Paris? Sorry, but Ecole Normale Superieure and Ecole Polytechnique both outpace that old dog by miles... unless you ask a ParisianWhether he knew of it or not, discounting La Sorbonne in 2009 is no glaring omission.
I was under the impression that the Max Planck Institutes were part of a non-profit research society, not a proper university...
QS Top Universities: Top 100 universities in the THE - QS World University Rankings 2007
True or not, he's more or less on track. Take away the UK, and the EU has precious few top universities (18 of 100 in the above rankings, compared to 37/100 for the US, and 17/100 for the UK).
Dude, Great Britain is not an extension of America. You can’t just appropriate it when it suits you.
Does this mean I can't get in my car and be in Great Britain in a few hours? That dream is now ruined!
Yes, you are correct. I probably should not talk about the US system as a whole.I'll take my, chance, here to point out my personal peeve every time American education gets raised as a subject of discussion; there is no such thing as the monolithic entity called "The US Education System". What US secondary education is, is a collection of 50 different state programs. When you talk about them as a collective, you are discussing what is basically the weighted average of 50 entirely separate entities.
There is greatsecondary school education to be found in the US, and there is horrible secondary school education to be found in the US.
For great performers, Massachusetts is an example; when evaluated separately from the bulk of the US, Massachusetts out-paces all nations in international testing of math and science, with the exception of Japan and Singapore (yes, I'm looking at you, Mr./Mrs. Haughty European... you're owned.)
Likewise, we have states that struggle. Mississippi, Arkansas, and some others lack the resources to adequately educate their young people.
I'd challenge any European to find 49 other nations that they could average their education performance numbers with, and still end up meeting or exceeding US averaged results. Just as a "thought exercise", a more accurate comparison of US education to Western Europe would be arrived at by averaging Eastern Europe and North Africa into the EU, and talk about the average quality of education from that geographical entity, as compared to the US.
Sermon over
Elitism comes form the British Empire. You want that, perhaps we might consider an application to re-join the Commonwealth.... but you'd probably have to clean up your act a bit. We don't just let any riff raff in.
Without Egalitarianism promoted in the French Revolution there would be no War of Independence in America.
So if you find it so soul destroying then leave America and go somewhere else.
Everyone has equal opprotunity in the US,
just becuase its not handed out on a silver platter like in socialist nations does not mean its not there, the US is the only place in the world where I can own an air plane as a private citizen
But america is the only place where I can keep enough of my own money to by my own plane for my own amusment without being taxed to death.
Everyone has equal opprotunity in the US, just becuase its not handed out on a silver platter like in socialist nations does not mean its not there, the US is the only place in the world where I can own an air plane as a private citizen from my own amusment and thats becuase my money is not being extorted as badely by the government (not even close to that end yet but the dream is not quite squelched yet). I started off poor and yes I graduated with an engineering degree and 72K in debt but I would never have been making the money I do now without that top notch education and I even had the opprotunity to go to a school that was likely on that top 100 list for my major (....maybe lol). The reason heath care is not affordable is not because we dont have socialist health care its because there is no regulation of insurance companies and mal practice insuarnce law suits, there is so much money spent on hoop jumping through insurance companies its a joke. Also twisting the bible to call people out that dont support health care is a joke, helping people that need help is one thing but extorting people to that end is how nations fell in the old testimate, sodom and gomorha is over played there are countless empires that fell in the old testimate because they were extorting there people in the name of the "greater good" and idol worshiping. You dont get to take the moral high ground by breaking into someones home and STEALING there evil alcohal and telling them it for there own good, the same way you dont get to take the moral high ground by stealing someones money and giving it to people who dont have health care, people have a hard enough time getting by they dont need you with your hands in their pocket, their first priority is to there own family and THEN to the "needy" if you dont have your own house in order you have no buisness giving money away and you most likely can not afford to have it stolen from you. Also you can not get the expidited medical care in canada like you get in the USA and the doctors and hospitals are not as good, top notch hospitals, doctors and medicine does not come from socialism, socialism has been piggy backing off of the USA copy catting things that were invented and developed here.
I will agree with one thing the germans and other EU nations have produced some top notch INDIVIDUALS who have done great things but that is of no relation to there society and most of them were smart enough to come to the USA because they had the resources here to realize what was in there head so I have a tough time giving a nation of orgin any credit because of a random event that a prodegy child was born there.
But america is the only place where I can keep enough of my own money to by my own plane for my own amusment without being taxed to death.
You've never heard of Australian Billionaires?
Guess who owns the Fox Network?
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