[extropy-chat] Researchers and students in America

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Amara Graps <amara at amara.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, Mike, usually the foreign students in my undergraduate and
> graduate physics courses were raising the curves, often being
> much smarter than us U.S. students. I'm very glad for all of
> the foreigners in my science courses. And I'm also glad that
> the 'foreigners' fully supported me (my PhD was not only free,
> I received a stipend to live on) to get my doctorate abroad. This
> is globalization, working to benefit everyone.

One of the reasons I dropped out of college was I was sick of spending
huge amounts of good money for bad grades in courses where I couldn't
understand the what the friggin instructor was saying, where my grades
were a function of the inscrutability of the instructor.

Given the vast number of foreign faculty today, I cannot help but
expect that the 'decline' is due to students being driven away by a
continuation of this trend of faculty dependence on graduate students
with poor engrish skills.

Now, that being said, I have found that europeans are typically quite
fluent in english. The problem isn't there, it is primarily asian.

=====
Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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