How does the American system of higher education compare to the British system?
I’m constantly shocked by how poor people’s educational standards are at their junior schools. I’m old-fashioned. I could read, write and tell the time before I went to school. I find it pretty appalling that is not now regarded as a criterion for education. I find you get people arriving at a university who are far less capable of obtaining all the advantages that a university education has to offer. It levels out at post-graduation. It you were to take a European post-grad and a U.S. post-grad, they’d be very similar. But what you’ve now gone through is a massive filtering process until the education levels out. I don’t think it has to be that way. I don’t see any reason why every kid of 5 should not be able to read. Unfortunately, that’s not modern teaching practices. Is there any topic that I didn’t touch on that you would like to address? My own belief is that the greatest asset you can give any student is a global view of the world. And I just feel we haven’t quite captured that.
