[Leica] Re: US educational inadequacy?

[lrzeitlin at optonline.net (lrzeitlin@optonline.net)]

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