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To: RetiredNow who wrote (319742)	1/9/2007 4:39:15 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576611

you think throwing more money at the public schools will help ? lololol you are naive

To: RetiredNow who wrote (319742)	1/9/2007 6:00:28 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576611

RE:"Now having said that, I think our post-graduate education is the best in the world, but high schools and below are crap and we need wholesale rethinking of it. The Chinese and Indians also think our grad schools are the best. Survey the science and engineering school enrollment and you'll find that at least 50-60% of the grad students are Asian. In some schools much higher than that, eg Berkeley. IBM Research is more than 70% oriental. I understand Johns Hopkins Med School is over 90% Chinese. Then ask yourself why American students don't seem to want to go for a Ph.D. I don't know why, but it's certainly not a tuition problem...

To: RetiredNow who wrote (319742)	1/10/2007 2:34:05 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 1576611

I know we all used to think of foreigners as somehow unequal to Americans, but folks, we'd all better wake up, because the playing field has changed and the quality of the competition is damn good and getting better every day, while we sit on our thumbs and think we're superior. So mindmeld, if their engineers are so wonderful where are the great Indian/Chinese technology companies? The Indians have some world class IT services companies, because they are able to do an equal quality tech point project (not product, project) at 1/4th the labor cost, but if their engineers are so great why did Apple just introduce the iPhone while the Indian/Chinese companies are nowhere to be found in the cell phone industry? Apple is 1 US company, India and China have 2 billion people! If your claim of how great their engineers are is accurate, where are their inventions?