Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Walt, Dont worry. We Indians feel the same way about students who study at the Indian Institutes of Technology for a pittance (currently around US$2500p.a.) and then emigrate to the USA en masse..... Cheers Jayanand Govindaraj Chennai, India lrzeitlin@optonline.net wrote: >US university education is the jewel in our educational crown. Nearly a >quarter of the students in graduate programs in the US are foreign >citizens. I served as a Visiting Professor in both the UK and India and I >know that admission to an American university is regarded as a cherished >prize. > >Most recently I taught in the Doctoral program of the Graduate School of >Business at the City University of New York. A high percentage of our >students were from Asia (Japan, Taiwan, India and lately from China). The >students were clearly the best and the brightest. They were sent by their >employers to get the finest education the world had to offer. Their tuition >was modest, largely subsidized by New York taxpayers. The students sought >currently practiced cutting edge business methods, not the obsolete >textbook stuff written by tenure seeking scholars. Many of the faculty were >Adjunct Professors who, in their day jobs, were high ranking executives in >financial, merchandizing, and pro >duct design firms in the New York area. The students learned well. After >three or four years they received their MBAs or PhDs and most returned to >their home countries. > >These are the guys running the companies that are eating our lunch. In the >words of the immortal Pogo, "We have met the enemy and they are us." > >Larry Z > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > >