saxitoxin wrote:pmchugh wrote:... our universities are of the quality expected of our nation. If you have a country that is pretty much a superpower, or one which out performs us in almost all other statistics then you are going to expect them to score higher in terms of the supposed "quality" of their universities.
Your argument, "no one expects a Scotsman to amount to much so we can make due with less" kind of makes me sad. It's the line recited by a people whose will has been smashed by a colonial power and believe what they've been told: they're, racially, only suited for cannon fodder and coal mining.
But, it doesn't work when you're trying to trumpet the achievements of your system of education. Other sub-national entities (what Scotland is) of equal size to Scotland have world-class universities: British Columbia, Connecticut, Massachusetts.If you're content to just get what's given to you, you'll end up like Scotland. If you're content to make sure your poor and working class get siloed into a few pauper's universities while your viscounts and marquesses and dukes and earls go to the best universities on earth, you'll end up like Scotland. Your argument was that this system gives everyone an equal playing field. Obviously this is the opposite of an equal playing field.
Our Universities would be something to do be proud of, if I was silly enough to care. You silly tactic of defining the area around the good uni's to be the comparison is not worthy of reply.
