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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The UK system excels at helping students learn a specific topic quite thoroughly. The system also is designed around how to take a specific test (A levels). It also means students need to declare their intended career path by approx. age 15.

The U.S. system allows for more flexibility and exposure to other subjects. Knowledge may not be as deep, but the U.S. system seems help people to think in a more broad-based way and to draw from more disciplines, which can help fuel innovation.

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This is such rubbish.  I'm British and went through the British education system.  I had no idea what I wanted to do or be until my final year at university.  It didn't matter a jot.  I studied the subjects I was interested in and that I wanted to pursue and my [b]tutors[/b] taught me how to think and stretch myself.  I ended up with a great degree and a cracking job.  I have no idea why people are so sure that Brits have to decide what they want to be at 15.  Where did that idea come from?[/quote]

You went to Oxbridge. Oxbridge is Oxbridge, the other schools are not Oxbridge. It's comparing apples and oranges. [/quote]

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