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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a general rule, UK schools are overrated. There's no real reason why a school like Oxford and Cambridge should ever be considered on par, let alone better, than HYPSM. Their inflated reputation has more to do with the vestiges of colonialism and imperialism than anything else.

A tangent, but Americans would do well to get over their Anglophilia. The British certainly don't think highly of Americans and our education system, so there's no reason why we should be over here fawning over the British and their schools and letting it get into their collective heads.[/quote]

Oh dear.[/quote]

I mean, are all these people refuting this British or what? I think it's a terrible look for Americans when Brits collectively look down their nose on us while we're licking their boots. America's tertiary education system is, amid the many (many) shortcomings of this country, one of the few things Americans can confidently say we're world leaders in. Our collective fixation on schools like Oxford and Cambridge is a holdover from Britain's sway on the world stage and our association of "British" with anything classy, upper-class, and better quality.

This is a tangential analogy, but it's sort of how like Brits will view an American accent with anything ranging from disinterest to outright disdain, while 100% of Americans will fawn over a British accent.[/quote]

All this BS aside, in the 1990's the US was #6 in the world for education and now? #27[/quote]

PP here. You're looking at figures for K-12 education. Even here, America's top secondary schools/systems (because, true to the grotesque inequity embedded in our society, each state/municipality/district varies wildly in quality) outperform the top secondary schools/systems elsewhere. Do you really think somewhere like FCPS or the Big 3 DC independent schools are anything but first-class?

What I'm talking about, if you had actually taken the time to pay attention, is tertiary education, where America is indisputably the world leader. This is in large part due to the intense concentration of wealth at the top schools. Harvard has an endowment bigger than half of the world's economies, at over 41 billion USD. Oxford, with more students, has less than 8 billion USD. If Oxford were in the United States, its endowment wouldn't even crack the top 10.[/quote]

+1.[/quote]

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