Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Perry E. Metzger wrote, [on 9/30/2008 1:05 AM]: > >> I don't doubt it, but don't think things are paradise here, >> educationally speaking. We're not a model to emulate. > > I suspect many of those who praise the USAnian education system have the > universities (undergrad and up) in mind. I am one of them.
The universities have the interesting features of being both non-compulsory and being generally selective in their admittance procedures. (The ones that don't have the latter feature are generally quite bad.) Most of the best are also private, though there are many exceptions to that (like Berkeley). The best students are also often foreigners, who were not subjected to and destroyed by the abysmal public primary/secondary education system. Perry -- Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
