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Originally Posted by RWebb
yes, really
do you know what fraction of Americans even go to college? much less graduate?
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No, what is the percentage?
And what countries are higher?
(And do we need a higher percentage? What is the optimal %? 100%?)
It seems to me that America is fairly unique in the "everyone needs to go to college" attitude. From what I recall in European and Japanese educational systems, historically they don't really believe that and tend to "separate the wheat from the chaff" fairly early on (13 or 14 years old).
Those are academically inclined (determined by evil and undoubtedly culturally and economically biased standardized testing) get on the university track, those that aren't, well, sayonara/auf weidesen. No university for you.
Finally, even if America has a significantly lower % of students who go to college and/or graduate, whose fault is that? Why is the "educational system" always automatically blamed?