On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 12:06 +0530, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: > with this approach when you consider that even with a very fine > education system, most Americans are interested in searching the > internet for hot pictures of Sarah Palin, and not her political > beliefs.
the US has the world's best universities. however, the _average_ of the US education system is rather poor - by rich-country standards (as with healthcare, india is totally off the charts when you look at _average_ services, rather than the excellent services that may be available to a tiny elite, including silklists membership). see, e.g. the OECD PISA rankings. note that the US is a big country, so "better" education can be found if you slice and dice a sample appropriately - as in india, for that matter. -r
