Well I would certainly agree that the British education system needs
loosening up to allow more variety, even if it is at the cost of less
consistency!
Victoria Uren
KMi, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1908 858516
> -----Original Message-----
> From: N. C a r r o l l [SMTP:ncarroll@hastingsresearch.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 3:40 PM
> To: unrev-II
> Subject: Re: [unrev-II] Science Education Paradox
>
> [slipping Victoria and answering Gary....]
>
> > It is the nature of world class universities to attract the best
> > academics, both in research and teaching. There is a statistic I would
> be
> > interested to know if anyone has access to it: what percentage of
> faculty
> at
> > universities in the USA received their primary education in the United
> > States?
> >
> > Victoria Uren
> > KMi, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
> >
>
> > ...
> > > The discrepancy between our college system and our primary education
> is
> > > amazing and nearly inexplicable. It appears that primary schooling
> > > throughout Europe is superior to ours, and yet some of our
> universities
> > > rank among the best in the world.
>
> It's surely amazing, yet explicable. European primary education generally
> puts a student on the street with the equivalent of a four-year degree
> from
> an average American university (with exceptions; Americans who have
> to wait for university to learn basic composition never really catch up
> in that area). In short, U.S. public primary education is appalling.
> However,
> that is also a national strength. Where European students are actually
> learning, they are all learning the same things. American students who
> want to learn are largely self-taught. This produces a much greater range
> of viewpoints, and is a major source of the startling American rate of
> innovation.
>
> Or phrased another way: the U.S. system produces great innovation,
> at the cost of letting the bulk of students fall through the cracks to
> ignorance and semi-literacy. European schools produce consistently
> literate, educated students, at the cost of stifling students who might
> have learned more on their own.
>
> Nicholas
>
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