DING! DING! DING!
AND.....
We Have The Winner!
Posted on 06/24/2020 8:45:21 AM PDT by karpov
Miguel Urquiola is professor and chair of the department of economics at Columbia University. His special field is education and his book Markets, Minds, and Money: Why America Leads the World in University Research is about American higher education—its history, its relationship to higher education in Europe, and the trajectory it has followed from the first green shoots of the Ivy League.
Urquiola describes how the history of American universities put them on a path different from European universities, a path where economic forces could act in ways that allowed American institutions to diverge and, in the late 20th century, to become pre-eminent engines of scientific research.
This pre-eminence occurred despite statistics putting US scientific literacy well behind many European countries. For example, the second graph in the book shows PISA math scores for students from Germany, France, the UK, and the US: The US lags well behind in every year from 2003 to 2012. The first graph shows years of schooling: here the US leads. Despite more years of school, Americans do worse than the British, French, and Germans.
Nevertheless, something is working. The next graph in the book shows “the frequency with which Nobel winners’ biographies mention universities in different countries:” the US lagged massively in 1870, draws even in about 1920, and pulls way ahead thereafter. The US also leads in the number of science Nobels, but Urquiola’s point is that the work that contributes to the prize always occurs much earlier. The US leads in both.
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Money and a large population of high IQ people from which to draw. What else could it be?
Because they are full of Chinese?...............
‘.... large population of high IQ people ….”
Don’t worry popular culture will soon fix that!
American taxpayers’ money!
“Because we use Indian and Chinese grad students and H1-B’s?”
Bzzzzzt... wrong answer.
You forgot the /sarc tag
Especially after removing foreign Indian and Communist Chinese trash from our universities we will be the best.
We didn’t need them in the past and we most definitely don’t need them now
An effect of the free market as opposed to central planning.
I would postulate that the rest of the world has come to think like “Let the Americans spend their treasure developing stuff. We will then enjoy the final product without having to stress our educational system.” Of course the third world educational systems are usually not up to the task so they have no choice.
One thing we could learn from the third world is crowd control. I suggest engaging ‘Idi Amin Security Systems’. Their training includes several real world examples of crowd control. We should suggest CHOP and ChiCongo for starters.
“Why Do American Universities Lead the World in Scientific Research?”
Because, it’s profitable.
rwood
Yep. When a scientist will lose tenure because he is using the wrong pronoun on a student, they all will go start working in Russia...
I am persuaded this social acceptance wokeness bs is brain drain entreprise against the Us advantage in this.
Israel is always coming out with breakthroughs in medical issues it seems- they might even have a vaccine against cancer and one against diabetes- - They are a tiny little nation (Smaller than the size of NJ- and incredibly the world can’t stand that they own even that much for some reason)- yet have come out with some truly remarkable things in the medical lines
European universities are too conformist and frown on new ideas. Basically if you go to a bank in Europe, they will not serve the customer but the banking rules. The salaried workers there protect the boss and not the customer, which yields to very bad service. The same goes in their corrupted school system where reverence for a professor is pushed to the the level of him demanding protection.
There was a case of a dissenting psychology prof in France who was forced incarcerated in a mental institution and almost killed there with drugs because the dean had professor friends who false witnessed his mental health to another friend who directed said mental hospital. They had the cops take him away there for a couple years until he was able to ask to be transferred to another unit from where he recovered and eventually got out.
Sadly with wokeness and social workers replacing cops, we will see more of that in the US.
OTOH, while lots of "good" science occurred during the late 1800's and early-to-mid 1900's, nothing of consequence has occurred since the federal government did away with public schools and apolitical institutions of higher learning...
What has passed for science since, say, the peanut farmer's administration, is merely expensive computers dotting the "i"s and crossing the "t"s...
DING! DING! DING!
AND.....
We Have The Winner!
“Because we use Indian and Chinese grad students and H1-B’s?”
The most correct answer.
And look at the name of the author of this study and chair of economics at Columbia - Miguel Urquiola! Very American sounding.
The root is in the infrastructure.
In our heritage we had the Magna Carta which was the cornerstone of rights, liberty, freedom and British common law. Once we learned we could own, buy and sell property came ideas...thusly we see patent law about 150 years later.
@ith the demands of new ideas came the spark for the development of the sciences, maths, engineering etcetcetc all leading into the industrial revolution.
Along the way we had the reformation in the church giving definition to self awareness, self determination, self actualization.... basically the birth of the John Wayne entrepreneur.
No body else on. the planet went through this... it was largely specific to the Christians of Great Britain... although now the war is on wester european Christian man.
It’s this root which put the capital G in the G7, the most developed nations on the planet.
“When a scientist will lose tenure because he is using the wrong pronoun”
Part of the problem in higher education are the professors and researchers who are in the hard sciences and who pay lip service to their noisy counterparts in grievance studies. I understand they just want to do their research without being harassed, but ultimately they need to stand up and confront the rabble. Do they not understand how the rabble appropriates their methods, like doing research, writing papers, peer review, publishing in journals, and how they corrupt these processes? Why should anyone believe some paper on global warming when you can easily get a hoax paper on rape culture in dog parks published in a “scholarly journal”?
I can’t answer that as someone who got degrees in chemical and mechanical engineering from good universities like the Berkeley
Many many students actually go to university to learn something and not be indoctrinated into communist nonsense and go protest nothing
If you stay engineering physics chemistry mathematics the biological science says anything like that you’re actually going to get an education
Because many states made a conscious decision to create elite state universities, a relatively well-educated population, a strong business sector that promotes research and development and freedom of inquiry which not only unleashes the potential of US citizens but attracts the intellectual elite and curious world wide.
Looking at the media, you would get the impression Americans are a bunch of uneducated rubes, zealots and lazy flat-earthers and while these people do exist, they are far from the norm in the USA.
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