Posted on 09/28/2012 2:21:32 PM PDT by cunning_fish
The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development recently released its Education at a Glance 2012 report. The report examines OECD and G20 countries where the data was available. According to the report, which includes vocational training as part of higher education/post-secondary education, here are the five most educated countries in the world:
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We would be higher on the list if we had not allowed 40 million or so illiterate peasants to enter our country, most of them illegal.
East Timor or Timor-Leste may also count as East Asian--the population there is 98% Catholic, 1% Protestant, and 1% Muslim. Admittedly it is a much smaller country (a little over 1 million population).
Most of the Russians who came over were very conservative.
Of course, in those days, conservative meant anti-Communist, anti-Soviet.
If we change the terms of debate, not everybody's going to follow.
The old-time refugees really hated Stalin and Communists and liberal dupes but weren't always very keen on absolutely free markets.
That would have been too much of a change for them, though the Russian teachers generally thought better of Reagan than their American students did.
Today's Russian moguls (I don't actually know any of them) are more capitalistic, but also more liberal on social issues (like millionaires everywhere nowadays).
The ones I know are more or less household names in the sec biz. Dmitry Gryaznov, for example, thinks he knows that islam is very peaceful.
Others hold that there is no right or wrong, just shades of gray - a prevalent view at places like Microsoft. Others think that no shariah law exists.
None of them is worth a gob of my spit.
Actually US and Canada would be much lower on the list were it not for the large immigrant community coming from overseas. The immigrant community have disproportionately higher percentage of people with advance degrees. Especially in engineering, medicine, information technology, and scientific research in most cases is entirely dominated by overseas immigrants.
I call BS on this. Where are Scandinavia, Switzerland, the Austrian speaking Austria?
If I’m not mistaken it was a study on G20 nations. None of your examples are part of G20.
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Actually US and Canada would be much lower on the list were it not for the large immigrant community coming from overseas. The immigrant community have disproportionately higher percentage of people with advance degrees. Especially in engineering, medicine, information technology, and scientific research in most cases is entirely dominated by overseas immigrants.
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That is the point for Israel and Russia to some extent as well.
Not nearly as much as US and Canada. Not even close.
Canada? Following Wiki it has only k35-k120 alien population. United States has over 20 million, Russia has about 11-12 million, Germany has some 9 million aliens. These three are top 3 global magnets for migration.
US and Russian aliens combined are more than total Canadian population.
13.6% of Canadian population is foreign born. This is the second highest in the world after Australia. Even higher then the US......and WAY higher then Russia.
And I am talking of foreign born immigrant as a percentage of total population....not alien residents.
And coming back to the original point, if you care to take a second look at the article you posted we aren’t dealing with absolute numbers but percentage of population.
Yes, my mistake. You might be right.
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