From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 27 10:47:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA6BC37B505 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 10:47:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f8RHlVN25438 ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 19:47:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id TAA70319 ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 19:47:31 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 19:47:31 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Carl Schmidt Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Another article, from the "other side" Message-ID: <20010927194731.A70182@lpt.ens.fr> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010926015428.01814630@threespace.com> <20010926125046.C1370@lpt.ens.fr> <20010926070519.A30531@blackhelicopters.org> <20010926132021.E1370@lpt.ens.fr> <20010926072915.A30655@blackhelicopters.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010927003714.01819658@threespace.com> <200109271345.f8RDjn116287@dungeon.home> <4.3.2.7.2.20010927100849.017f9938@threespace.com> <20010927171312.C56631@lpt.ens.fr> <20010927132438.A42742@slackerbsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010927132438.A42742@slackerbsd.org>; from carl@slackerbsd.org on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 01:24:38PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Carl Schmidt said on Sep 27, 2001 at 13:24:38: > > > > Yes, the US do spearhead the economy of the world, they are at the > > technological cutting edge. In terms of economic policy, and also in > > terms of the educational system (not mentioned by Sinclair, I think), > > the US unquestionably got it right and everyone else is lagging far > > behind. But I don't think that means one should not criticise the > > foreign policy. And I certainly don't think the foreign policy is > > justified by, or has any connection whatever with, these things. > > > > Oi. We most certainly do not lead the world in education. I meant, university education. The US has, what, 10 or 20 absolutely top-class universities, and another 100 or 200 which are as good as the best universities of many other countries? At least, that's what the view from outside is like. Which is why people from everywhere in the world want to go to the US for higher studies. Yes, I've also read that school education can be pretty bad, especially in sciences and mathematics. R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message