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To: LindyBill who wrote (111004)	4/25/2005 3:30:54 AM
From: frankw1900	Read Replies (2) of 793782

One of the great strengths of North American post secondary education has been its (necessary partly because of low secondary education standards) "wastefulness". The situation as described in the article has been in place for fifty years. The final purpose of sorting out students for a university (and a country) is feeding graduate schools and public and private research institutes. The sorting can be done either at secondary or post secondary level. In N America the sorting has been done mostly at the post secondary level. One advantage to this system is that it gives intelligent students who did not achieve well in secondary schools - for whatever reason - an opportunity to enter the post graduate system. Another advantage is that it gives the post graduate system the largest pool of talent for triage. This has worked particularly well in Canada and the US which both have extremely good post graduate schools and can be seen in these countries' rates of continually accelerating scientific and technological development. The "cost", if it is one, is the drop out rate. This cost can be lessened if universities raise their entrance standards slightly.

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