Justin wrote:
> ["Followup-To:" header set to rec.arts.anime.misc.]
> Curt Fischer wrote on [Thu, 30 Jun 2005 06:55:30 +0900]:
> 
>>Justin wrote:
>>
>>>Curt Fischer wrote on [Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:24:37 +0900]:
>>>
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>>>>Justin wrote:
>>>>
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>>>>>Danny Wilde wrote on [Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:26:31 +0900]:
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>>"Vernon North" <verno@oyama.bc.ca> wrote in message 
>>>>>>news:MPG.1d2bb231b36701aa98a1d8@shawnews.vc.shawcable.net...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>"American high school students have a poorer mastery of basic math
>>>>>>>concepts than their counterparts in most other leading industrialized
>>>>>>>nations, according to a major international survey released yesterday."
>>>>>>
>>>>>>(etc. snipped.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Doesn't American high school education tend to be more broad than in other 
>>>>>>countries? European countries tend to specialize much earlier. The same goes 
>>>>>>for universities, I believe.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Anyway, the level of American science is number one in the world. So common 
>>>>>>sense tells us that the education system must be doing something right.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>The fact that a lot of that "American science" comes from imported
>>>>>scientests tells us otherwise.
>>
>>Notice your original claim, above.  That the presence of foreign 
>>scientists in America discredits the notion that the (American) science 
>>is number one and that therefore its education system must be doing 
>>something right.  OK, wrong, but as a wise man once said, at least it's 
>>an ethos, dude.
> 
> 
> No, that it discredits the US edicational system, with "American"
> science being made my more than Americans.

I like your stance on the issue.  It makes it easy for America to stay 
on top!  All we have to do is block all foreign scientists from entering 
our country and then we will be #1 4-evuh!

Woot woot.

-- 
Curt Fischer

p.s. good try trying to limit followups to your little gang over there 
in rec.arts.anime.music, hoping I wouldn't notice.  Nearly got me.