LONDONER Wrote:If it is, it's depressing.
Yes, a sample of three Americans can accurately describe more than three hundred million.
But on a more serious note, even though America has some of the best universities in the world (like MIT, Caltech, and Princeton), we still have problems educating kids. For example, in 2013, in the Rochester City School District, only 43.4 percent of high school seniors graduated:
http://rochester.twcnews.com/content/new...ceptable-/
The metropolitan area of Rochester, NY, has some fine universities like Rochester Institute of Technology and Rochester University that attract students from all over the world. But as you can see, it has a problem with its own high school students going to school.
I do find it depressing. I feel grief for the uneducated in my country. I feel grief for my own self and dread the day my education plan is crushed when the day comes that I find I can't afford to finish my degree. I put myself in debt to go to college so I can pay it off later and make a good salary, and then half-way through my degree I am no longer approved for student loans so not only can I never finish my degree but the loan company can never get their money back because they prevented me from finishing college. In a cosmic way it's rather comical, actually.