"The world is indifferent to tradition and past reputations, unforgiving of frailty and ignorant of custom or practice," [Andreas Schleicher, head of the OECD education directorate] said. "Success will go to those individuals and countries which are swift to adapt, slow to complain, and open to change."
A pretty bleak snapshot of the world.
I worry that a point is being missed. America may boast the largest number of prestigious universities today, but I suspect that your average affordable European university is better than your average affordable American university. Competence is distributed differently. Much like degree prestige and even income in the US--the proportions are outrageous.
I'll be the first to admit how much Yale has done for me. But without a diversity of systems in the world, how will we ever be able to pinpoint a reason when one of those systems fails?
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