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Subject: [Leica] Re: US educational inadequacy?
From: jgovindaraj at eth.net (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Mon Mar 20 20:34:03 2006
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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 
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