> Dana wrote: > Well, I would have to differ with you. With all due respect, of > course, but it's clear you don't have school-age children. The United > States has many things to be proud of, but the education of children > is not one of them. >
On that you have my full agreement. Our K-12 education system sucks, no doubt. I believe I said "higher education" though, meaning college. But just to be clear I think our public university system mostly sucks too with a few exceptions such as Cal, UPenn, UMich, etc. Where the US is really strong is with top professional universities meaning graduate school for medicine, law, business, etc. In all of those fields and more, 98% of the top universities in the world are in the US. What that means, at least for the time being, is that any kid looking to jump economic classes can do it by attending one of the world's top universities which, if you live in the US, gives you an advantage: there's one close by. Coincidentally (or not really) those kids will also be in the wave of workers ready to profit from globalism. So my point to Robert is, it's not what or how much you study it's where and what you do with it. But I agree with him: there's no guarantees. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:158246 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
