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Subject: [Leica] Re: US educational inadequacy?
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Mon Mar 20 20:01:38 2006

My God but some people are sarcasm challenged. ;-)


On 3/20/06 10:52 PM, "Keith R. Wessel" <keith@wesselphoto.com> wrote:

> B.D.
> 
> Get over it.  Some of us lurkers enjoy this stuff ;-)
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@comcast.net>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 9:08 AM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: US educational inadequacy?
> 
> 
>> And this has what to do with Leicas? I think we need another list
> started -
>> the AIAEUG - Asians In American Education UG. Come on, people, let's get
>> back to the stuff that really maters - like how to trim the leader on a
>> roll of PanX for a Lieca O.
>> 
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>> ...... Original Message .......
>> On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 09:55:32 -0500 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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