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Originally Posted by Pressing-On
There is some argument to be made about high-skilled workers. I read a report, didn't save the link from several years ago, where big corporations (Xerox and others) who were complaining that they were not getting any kids coming out of college who were educated or skilled enough to be qualified to work much less take over these large companies in the future.
So, let's not gloss over that we don't have an education problem in America. After all, we are ranked behind a lot of countries in fundamentals.
Look at this graph from 2013 regarding Math, Reading and Science. This is from Business Insider.
http://www.businessinsider.com/pisa-rankings-2013-12 |
Yeah I've seen what those brilliant Asian engineers can do. They can derive an equation from scratch theory but give them a blank sheet of paper and they give you a blank look of puzzlement while they try to figure out what to do with it. They can copy the design of anything, but they can't conceptualize a design from nothing. They can't even get started.
Which makes their "high level math skills" pretty much worthless.
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