All excellent points, Ken.  Well said.  There ARE students in other
countries who excel, but the percentages (I'm guessing) are
miniscule.  I've got to believe that the vast majority of children in China
and India are poorly educated by American standards.

Our schools are excellent; not perfect, but the best there is.

John Lee





At 05:03 PM 4/6/05 -0400, Ken Hirsch wrote:

>Let's review some facts about American "competitiveness"
>(1) American workers are the most productive in terms of output/year.
>(2) Productivity increased faster in America than European countries
>over the last ten years.
>(3) Productivity in China and many other Asian countries is growing
>rapidly, but they have *a lot* of catching up to do.  China's GDP per
>capita is less that 1/7th of ours.  India is even poorer.
>
>Jobs have gone overseas because of ****low wages****, not mythical
>superiority of foreign workers.
>
>America has the highest proportion of college graduates of any country.
>About 34% of young Americans get college degrees.  In China and India,
>about 12% do.  About 1.6% of young Americans get engineering degrees.
>In China, it is about 0.9%.
>
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