[americanophile]

That’s surprising. Every Indian I know is sharp as a tack and highly engaged in education. Of course they’re either immigrants or here on student/working visas. I’m not sure about your assertion regarding the U.S. educational system though. While I think it’s absurd to compare everything a nation of 300 million people do to, say, Norway, our system is nevertheless deeply flawed, our scores are substandard in many categories, and our dropout rates are becoming epidemic in some localities. The schools in places like Detroit are a national shame. I think your statement was true 50 years ago, and historically speaking, I think we’re doing okay by the standards of very large nations, but there is massive room for improvement and each day brings another story of bureacratic ineffeciency, union greed, and inane political correctness that further diminish what was once a great system that lifted many out of poverty.

[rbg81]

Every Indian I know is sharp as a tack and highly engaged in education.

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I’ll have to disagree with you there. About 1/4th are smart, but the rest not so much. Many of them can’t program their way out of a paper bag. There is a lot of cheating (copying) that goes on among Indian students. More than once, I’ve had the problem where they submit papers with whole sections plagerized—sometimes even out of an obvious source like Wikipedia. They are very respectful, but don’t mistake that for intelligence.

[msamizdat]

My husband is Indian and I can objectively say brilliant. My oldest daughter (1/2 Indian) recently took the MCAT in Chicago. Of the 50 test takers 45 were Indian and 5 were white.

[msamizdat]

My husband is Indian and I can objectively say brilliant. My oldest daughter (1/2 Indian) recently took the MCAT in Chicago. Of the 50 test takers 45 were Indian and 5 were white.

[msamizdat]

My husband is Indian and I can objectively say brilliant. My oldest daughter (1/2 Indian) recently took the MCAT in Chicago. Of the 50 test takers 45 were Indian and 5 were white.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I went to graduate school with those “ITT” guys. Smart, funny, clever, good-natured, wonderful folks. They give the whole country a good name ;)

[ScottfromNJ]

“While I think it’s absurd to compare everything a nation of 300 million people do to, say, Norway, our system is nevertheless deeply flawed, our scores are substandard in many categories, and our dropout rates are becoming epidemic in some localities.”

Other countries often seperate poorer performing students from regular students and exclude them from their statistice, exaggerating the success of their education system as a result when compared to ours. Still, our system continues to struggle with increasing government meddling.