Hi GV, RE: "Do you have any evidence of this?"
Yes
Here's the details:
India's top 'high schools' teach differential calculus in 8th grade, while integral calculus is taught in 9th grade.
Indonesia's top high schools teach calculus around the Junior & Senior years.
Meanwhile, our top high schools teach calculus in the Senior year of high school.
I think we need to import math teachers from India - for the lower grades, which is where we start losing our math students.
RE: "Although I don't have any concrete evidence, I would imagine that if you compared our smartest kids from the best schools here to the smartest kids from the best schools there, they'd be comparable."
I've noticed every country has its own strength. India & Russia - conceptual mathematics. USA - applied science, heuristics in engineering fields and heuristic software development. Etc.
Also, the USA school system fosters extremely creative thinking.
RE: "Which industry recently had 4 out of 5 recent companies go public? It was hightech. I think you've got a highly biased sample there."
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It was the most recent example. Hightech was ever present, even during it's recent doom & gloom.
RE: "As an example, just about every single innovation in financial services happened here, in the United States."
I agree. Extremely creative. (I mean this in a positive way.)
Maybe WS can innovate something to get rid of the SS problem?
RE: "Look at biotech or pharmaceuticals. The innovation is happening here, not elsewhere. There are a bunch of smart entrepreneurs in the US. Not all of them are at work in high tech."
I know. A very smart bunch. Valley is swarming in biotech.
RE: "Human clinical trials for a SARS vaccine just recently began."
Geez, what about the Avian Flu?
Regards,
Amy J |
