Engineers in U.S. vs. India
Steve Schear
s.schear at comcast.net
Tue Jan 6 11:39:41 PST 2004
At 11:17 AM 1/6/2004, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-407043,curpg-3.cms
>
>Moreover, it is found out that the Americans are shying away from the
>challenges of math and science. A recent National Science Foundation Study
>reveals a 5 per cent decline in the overall doctoral candidates in the US
>over the last five years.
Not surprising considering the lack of preparation most get today in school.
As has been discussed on this list many who graduated college before the
late '70s were able to pursue independent science experimentation (esp.
chemistry and rocketry, etc.). Now almost all science can only be learned
in the classroom. Many of the greatest scientific break throughs were made
by amateurs. We'll probably never know what new ideas were never thought,
or were greatly delayed, because young minds in science were only channeled
through the rote of the classroom.
steve
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