Well. I only read the discussion about the book posted online that included the author as a speaker.
http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/events/2010/5/04%20global%20education/20100504_brain_race.pdf
There’s not a finite amount of knowledge in the world that we all have to fight over. If are were more smart people in China with PhDs, that’s good for us. It’s not bad for us.
I agree with this.
We meet with some frequency, and I think we’re all at the table to make sure each one of us is checking out what everyone else is doing, because none of us wants to lose in this race, and at the same time it’s unclear what winning looks like.
I chuckle with this, it looks healthy and developing.
I have to ask, this article makes it seem like so many countries are spending a lot and trying to import and reproduce American Universities. Is ours a coveted template? Or is everybody cherry-picking from all the countries and the article just listed ours.
Nevermind, I got down to the bottom where Mr. Wildavsky is speaking and he said a lot of American Universities that they want internationally are trade schools. What they want that we've got is a more accessable education.
So, middle or lower class kids are sort of left out, and places like Laureate, Kaplin, Apollo Group, the parent of University of Phoenix, they’re all jumping in to serve a whole different market.
They said that India and China are acting protectionist, which seems to mean they're not eager to let foreign Universities set up shop in their neck of the woods. Unrelated, I recently googled "the rising tide of color" because, like I said, I just started reading the Great Gatsby. Read the first Amazon review on that rising tide of color book and see if you don't think the #3 racism isn't relevant to that? Like this:
IOW: they want it us vs. them (?)
The US overstates the importance of China's currency in the US-China economic relationship. Getting rid of the trade deficit with China demands reforms on both sides of the Pacific – to increase savings in the US and spending in China," says the internet.
*Or* else is their hesitation to open up to international universities a decision made as a survival strategy? Like this: (their house isn't in order due to poverty, labor abuse, and inequality- it wouldn't stand being shaken up by an influx of influential thinking from western Universities). I hesitate to post this because I'm ignorant of foreign countries in general, just the urban legends and gossip I hear on the internet.
China will unlikely continue to grow 10% annually as China is dealing with a long list of problems of its own: persistent poverty, inflation, rising debt levels, income inequality, poor social services, bubble-quality property prices, poor technology and energy efficiency, excessive reliance on investment for growth, and so on," says the internet.
Someone on page 47 and 48 said what every parent should be doing when you don't know what job your child will be using in 15 years is directly teaching them effort, and teamwork, and perserverance from a young age.
