Re: Economist article on mobility


"Les Cargill" <lNOcargill@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> jrw wrote:
>
> > Hi Les,
> >
> > I think that is just a little too selective. I have read the same
> > survey, and I think the following should also be included...
> >
> > 'A dynamic American society has always meant a well-educated and
> > technologically advanced one. True, there are deep-seated problems in
> > secondary education: in an international study, American 10-year-olds
> > came 12th out of 25 countries in mathematics and sixth in science. But
> > the quality and quantity of intellectual life in America is still the
> > highest in the world. A quarter of American adults have a university
> > education. The country produces one-third of the world's scientific
> > papers, employs two-thirds of the world's Nobel-prize winners, has 17
> > of the top 20 universities (as ranked by Shanghai's Jiao Tong
> > University) and has more ideas-based workers than anyone else.'
> >
> > There you have it...

I think (and I suppose I should admit that I'm from the eastern side of the
Atlantic) there's a bit of a divide between the top private universities and
other areas of education. In fact, I think I read somewhere that 1.5% of US
GDP goes to university level education, which is far higher in fact than the
UK, France and Germany. The trouble is that state education isn't comparably
great, and places at European universities are either completely or at least
heavily state funded, so those at the lower end of the socioeconomic strata
find it easier to afford.

'ideas based workers' also sounds like a bit of a cop out - presumably this
means service industries, which in some cases will require serious
intelligence, but will also include McJobs. Especially if 'more than anyone
else' is a absolute measure, rather than as a percentage of the workforce.


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