[Leica] Re: US educational inadequacy?

[keith at wesselphoto.com (Keith R. Wessel)]

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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> 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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