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If American education is such shit, why does America house the

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If American education is such shit, why does America house the top universities in the world?
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>>7733932
Because rankings actually evaluate how concentrated research is. In the US you have a few excellent unis and lots of shit ones while in Europe, virtually all are very good.

Besides, education quality =/= research quality.
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>>7733944
>rankings

What rankings are you referring to?
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>>7733944
>comparing dozens of countries to a single one and claiming superiority

Eurocucks everyone.
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>>7733944

>Europe

pls
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>>7733932
Because at PhD level and above US universities are actually rather good and equally importantly have the funding needed to attract the right people and produce groundbreaking research results.
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>>7734013
They have comparable populations.
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>>7735350
EU has a 200 million more people. Compared to population, the amount of Nobel laureates is proportionally greater than EU.
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>>7733932
>the top universities in the world
but not for you, education is class-based.
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>>7735590
It's actually merit based. Any poor kid who is intelligent enough to get into Harvard will go to Harvard on scholarship.
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>>7733932
https://youtu.be/aaFAUeftTKs?t=5m2s
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