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Originally posted by Colin
The US has lost its way in public education. We're not keeping up.
On the other hand the US has more top universities than any other nation in the world. Yale, Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Cal Tech,
Brown, Cornell, Stanford, University of Chicago. I could go on. So could you. There are few other places in the world I would have wanted to go for my education. Oxford or Cambridge would be good choices.
These schools are businesses with huge endowments and hence great staffs. They can afford the best equipment and have the largest research grants. American scientists dominate the nobel prize in physics and medicine.
So yup, we have more McDonald's employees than any nation in the world and more scientists too.
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With tuitions rising more and more every year, though, it's harder for the average guy to access a post-secondary education. That's not isolated to the States, either.. it's happening in Canada and other countries. But it's VERY naive to say that America is the BEST when it comes to that, because they're not. Yes they have more top schools, but it's a bigger country too. Glad to see you aren't so busy tooting the US horn that you can't admit to the truth, Colin
