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Originally Posted by cfg83
I like to say that our university system is the last educational gem we have left. We always saw "waves" of foreign students in our architecture department.
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It's more than waves in engineering & the hard sciences. I remember one graduate physics class where the instructor tended to answer questions in Chinese, because there were only two non-Chinese in the class - and the other one was from Russia.
Recently I spent a couple of years working on a project for an industry lab (the sort of place where everyone's disappointed that the guy down the hall didn't get a share in the Nobel Prize), where about 2/3 of the researchers are foreign-born - not because they had any prejudice against hiring Americans, but because they just can't find qualified people. And why can't they find qualified people? Because in contemporary American culture, it's cool to be dumb.
Just for an example (and I apologize if this verges on politics), look at how Obama's fans enthuse about how he's so intelligent, and such an intellectual giant, yet the guy only went to LAW SCHOOL, fer gawdsakes. Sure, he did well, but law just ain't rocket science.