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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: f.simons who wrote (81273)11/28/1999 4:56:00 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1574855
 
RE <<<However, if you go past this to the PhD and beyond level, and into the teaching labs and University research resources, she is certainly right. People come from all over the world to study at the graduate and post-graduate level in the US. And to do research in US labs.>>>

Do they come because our graduate programs are so outstanding or do they come because once they complete their education, the best opportunities for employment exist here as opposed to their own countries? Further is it not better to get a degree in the world's dominant country in that country's language in order to insure good prospects for employment whether its here or abroad? I think economics has a lot to do with the issue.

Furthermore, I can't buy into the notion that our upper level programs are superior vis-a-vis to the rest of the world when the lower levels are not. After all it's the lower levels that feed the upper levels with product (students). So if the students are coming out of less than superior systems, then it is unlikely that their performance suddenly becomes superior once they enter our universities. And if their performance does not elevate, then how can our upper level programs be superior to the rest of the world.

Don't get me wrong I think our educational system is better than most and that we have some fine universities. However I do not think we are the best and its this thinking that we are the best that always seems to get us into trouble one way or the other.

But I only used education to make an analogy....so there is no reason to belabor the point.

ted
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