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nothing more than ever increased profligacy in the granting of high school diplomas and college degrees

You might be able to help me out with this-- why is it that so many people say stuff like this even though personally they know it's not true?

Everyone -- you included-- knows that when we want say, a top notch Doctor to do brain surgery on a family member that we'd want one with a medical degree from John Hopkins and not one from Botswana U. How about maybe you're head-hunting for a high-tech start up and you're comparing resumes from one guy with a PhD specialty in Integrated Circuits with MIT versus one from Oxford, England. We all know why there are so many more people in other countries with US decrees than there are Americans who went to all the trouble to get their schooling overseas-- it's because everyone knows an American education degree is BETTER.

The only think I can't figure out is why is it that so many freepers who are on the ball in their businesses, and who turn right around and bash the US like idiots. I already know why liberals are America bashers, they are idiots.

I collect old books. Reading reference books such as the Encyclopaedia Brittannica produced towards the beginning of the last century is eye-opening. I have a set of 1903 Brittannicas. I can assure you that the average college student will have difficulty comprehending most of it though it was aimed at approximately an 8th grade reading level in its day.

A solid century of public education has bought us nothing but a mostly illiterate mob in my opinion.

It's interesting that students at the highest terminal degree level of the most academically rigorous programs of top U.S. universities are disproportionately (and increasingly so) foreign.

"For years, most of the Ph.D.s awarded by American universities in mathematics and engineering have gone to foreigners. We have the finest graduate schools in the world -- so fine that our own American students have trouble getting admitted in fields that require highly trained minds." Thomas Sowell in Phony 'ethics'.

While the best U.S. graduate schools are being filled with foreigners, U.S. school kids fall behind. Fifteen-year-olds in the U.S. rank near the bottom of industrialized countries in math skills, ahead of only Portugal, Mexico and three other nations, according to a new international comparison that economists say is bad news for long-term economic growth.

Since when does pointing out massive domestic government failure constitute "bashing America?"