RE: America deserves Santorum
February 28, 2012 at 5:46 pm
(This post was last modified: February 28, 2012 at 5:50 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(February 28, 2012 at 4:58 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: Well, that makes me feel very warm inside, but seriously, free public education is a reality in many poorer countries, and I simply fail to comprehend why it does not exist in America.
To be fair, free public education does exist in America. It's just that the quality of public education in America is poorer than in many poorer countries, and does not really cover post-secondary education. Which explains why we are getting poorer, while the poorer countries are getting richer.
Also, many religious folks refuse to allow their children to attend our poor public education system, not because our poor education system is too poor for their children, but because despite its poor quality, our shabby public education system still occassionally allow a piece of real knowledge to trickle onto the unfortunate students, and that can't be tolerated by the religious. So they developed a jar completely impervious to any knowledge, called home school.
(February 28, 2012 at 5:31 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote:(February 28, 2012 at 5:01 pm)Rhythm Wrote: You could always send a portion of your pay home (which is common, and actually a very good idea). I'm with you on that count, I have absolutely no idea why we're so backwards in that regard. That's not entirely true, I have an idea as to why we're so backwards, I just can't accept it.
Well, sending money home is not the thing, though. If I go to work abroads, I'm actually contributing to the brain drain that befalls my country. This is the real harm done here.
Brain drain has subtle and unanticipated benefits for the countries appearently loosing the brains. For example, brain drain to the US and UK built the foundation of economic growth of China and India.
