Michio Kaku: US has the worst educational system known to science
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- Michio Kaku: US has worst educational system known to science says in a conversation with Michael Schrage executive.mit.e... and also says that the stupid index of US population in also rising and the proof are the reality shows, network televisions so why doesn't the scientific establishment didn't collapse and also adds that the america has an special weapon called as H1B visa and without which forget google, silicon valley as 50% of all pHD are foreign born.
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One does not simply interrupt the great Dr. Michio Kaku
because if they do, then he shuts them down with the most logical answer possible. Damn, I would love to see Michio Kaku vs Bill O'Rielly. I'm not sure which topic, it doesn't really matter which topic though, because Michio Kaku would probably turn out to be a professional at it.
+james wasda so true
One doesn't interrupt anyone, no matter how big is the level of disagreement. One just waits for its turn to speak, as any civilized person would. That guys is simply a bad case of arrogance.
When a person says civilized, what does that mean? Cause we are no where near civilized as we kill each other all over the world for dominance of man's own ignorance with religion, wars, etc. Where is the civilization in that?
He said ''civilized person'' not ''civilized world''.
I didn't see any warmongers on the stage. Beside the arrogant douchebag.
I didn't need you to tell me that the US has the worst educational system. It's crazy how shitty it is.
Right?
Piano Theorist No kidding. I didn't start learning till I got into the Navy.
what are u talking about, they have trump university! !
When did this became a major problem
Shitty schools: The results of hippie-consumer culture-alikeness ideas combination of cultures on school systems. The too large impact of the social sciences, capitalism and socialism. The best schools have had a much less impact of these interests, and a higher impact from nature sciences, functionalist approach and collective ambition. "Asian countries claimed the top five spots in a global math-and-science-education ranking administered by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) while the U.S. placed 28th, below much poorer countries such as the Czech Republic and Vietnam. Singapore ranked best in the world, with Hong Kong placing second and South Korea, Japan and Taiwan rounding out top five, reports the BBC. At sixth, Finland is the first non-Asian country to appear in the rankings". time.com/3856834/worlds-best-top-schools-survey-asia/ I have several relatives in Finland. I also have watched a long documentary only accessible in Finland, about teachers swapping borders in North Scandinavia, where there was a lot of filming classroom dynamics, what teachers do. This can also be compared to a general change in the culture of the countries in the young generations. Countries like Norway, Sweden, USA have a significant cultural decay in many ways easily findable. Drugs, violence, decreasing average knowledge, overemphasized entertainment interests. In our schools, there is really no ambition. The kids are there just to be there, while their parents are working to feed the state with taxes.
The saddest part is that it takes a well known, very pragmatic, and very smart speaker to point out what should be totally obvious to the masses anyway. This shouldn't be news, and yet to many people it is.
yea pretty much Dr. Kaku is always on point.
+lordblazer *on fleek...you're welcome
important to remember not everyone is as smart, well spoken or saavy as MIchio kaku or the other luminaries we see in documentaries.
I dont think anyone sees this as news.
Anthony Garcia Yea, I'll continue to say on point. You see the perks of being a black american is that we can use our dialect however we see fit old words new words.. doesn't matter.
Hey, while we're improving our educational system, can we teach public speakers to shut the heck up when others are talking? The minute you disagree with someone, it becomes your duty to steamroll right over their point before they have a chance to make it. It's like dogs barking.
yes, but back to their debate, in fact they are both correct. There are no real American engineers coming out of these schools and like the other guy said it is because the US education is broken.
Well, in the US debating is mostly like that :/
YEAH so annoy that stupid man.
It has to due with debate style. Some characteristics are individual and some are cultural. Imho, that particular debate style is more American.
Not in my experience, Jakob. If you've listened to a BBC interview, then often you'll hear the interviewer cut off a politician in the middle of a talking point. And while some British TV conferences can be respectful, others can be just as much of a free-for-all.
We need scientists and creative people. This is impossible with a bad education system
If there is a good educational system, than how will the reality shows and alcohol sell?
You are both correct; if stupid sells, why would they want to end stupidity? If you want the system to improve, you need to identify who benefits from stupidity the most.
Alcohol will sell, no matter what
+red toasti idk, I've been keeping away from alcohol even at parties, and I gotta say it's hillarious watching drunk friends do and say the stupidest shit while I'm sober lol.
yes, but not to an idiotic level.
I am currently in college in the U.S. and I am yet to find one person who thinks the system is acceptable. The professors don't care about their jobs and aren't there to teach. They are there to perform "research" and read off PowerPoint slides for a few hours a week. Introductory courses are crafted to fail a target number of people and are not intended to teach anyone anything. Higher education needs reform as soon as possible.
the us is awful when I gave my high school teachers a crash course in human rights humanitarian criminal refugee law Iw as labeled ocd odd bipolar depressed
Not to mention how colleges force you to waste time and money on useless "gen ed classes" like why does a computer science major need to take dance class or anthropology????
@@Jcon4002 ig to fill the classes, but maybe culture idk it sucks
You also have to factor in the cost of education. Students are less willing to enroll into college, because they don't want to be in debt for the next couple of years (or for most of their lives).
***** I knew someone who paid off all her student debt in 1 year.
What about making collage free?
A form of matter I'm all for that :)
Not all of us can be bounty hunters, Samus.
High college costs cut both ways. Not only do you wind up with students graduating (or often not graduating) with huge debts, but you get new colleges springing up all over the place looking to cash in on the gravy train with little commitment to their student's interests.
haha, the "stupidity index", I love it! and so true
I agree
Sarah Schreiber I've worked in formal and alternative education for 7 years, and I've no knowledge of a case where a kid, a teen, or a grown up doesn't learn properly because he is in a diverse environment. Culturally and academically diverse environments are one of the factors that actually impulse learning. Also, you're so anxious about winning an argument that you're ignoring the fact that if the daring accusation of history you're making is correct, I am not the "idiot losing". You are.
Japan also hates racist Americans thats why they are doing much better than us.
Soooo Neil degrasse tyson, william claytor, Alcorn...etc held back white people because they felt sorry for them? How idiotic is that If you truly believe African Americans hold back white people and Indians don't interact with black people so they can do well? I can't believe someone like you exists. Now I really understand why America is suffering in education. Idiots like you are the result of bad parenting and misinformation given in schools. Here's a tip, don't generalize an entire group of people just because some bad events happened in surroundings. That's not fair to them. Your problems are your own, it's not universal. You just seem so uneducated and racist on the matter at hand. And your reasoning is just anecdotal responses. You're a true genuine product of the American education system huh.
You love him generalizing an entire country based on a percentage of horrible test scores from individual people? Okay XD
Go home America, you're drunk.
A form of matter someone better give him a ride.
America just needs to take a nap for awhile. She'll get better soon, I promise, before the Chinese and other foreigners attempt to usurp her position on the throne as the world's dominant superpower. America will forever be the hegemon and Empress of the globe; 🌎no one shall ever exceed her greatness, even when intoxicated!
Just the USA not the entire continent
No that's the secret service
Americans love their beer
As a college student it has become very clear to me that I love learning, but hate school. The saddest part of this realization is that, on an idividual level, there's next to nothing I can do to aid the situation.
Read the book DIANETICS that will change your approach
@@hadjige1953 Are you taking the piss? Dianetics?
That baseless load of pseudoscientific shite, invented by a paranoid fruitcake, for gullible science illiterate Scientologists and their cult of personality? You're either trolling, or hopelessly dumb. Besides, he's referring to the faulty American education system,
not the mad and clueless ravings of a whack-job.
As an immigrant to the US with 2 undergraduate and 4 graduate degrees in mathematics and physics, I have to agree that the US has one of the worst education systems I could have ever imagined. It is beyond shocking. The teachers in both public and private grade schools that I encounter, are, for the most part, an embarrassment.
Hmmm.... So back to topic. The earth is a oblete spheroid that spins on an axel?
Patrick, I think your post proves my point. Thanks for playing, anyway.
yes I agree they make it hard for people to achieve anything so most just settle for some 9 to5 job
The US education system is designed to make good subservient workers with no critical thinking skills. As it stands someone earning the mean wage in the US could never afford the kind of internationally recognized education for their children that the few elite's can afford.
A large percentage will end up in places that teach biology but say evolution is just one theory that is disputed. That teach gravity but say it is disputed by the theory of an electric universe.
The US education system is obscenely expensive and performs terribly. It is really inefficient.
I agree with the guy talking at the start where he says the education system in America for the first two years of college is done like a boot camp, they pride themselves in their dropout rates. The STEM fields have a very bad relationship with most Americans because they teach to only one type of learner, people who would like to sit in pure mathematics classes with no application end up graduating in engineering and can't solve basic problems. They need to make STEM classes application based and give them context. I always asked my teachers, "whats this for" and most of the time they could not tell me. I love physics especially but I felt my teachers completely failed me because I had to go learn the application of physics outside of class. Again, teaching to one type of learner and leaving the "hands on" learners in the cold is what needs to change.
Much of the stuff you learn early on in STEM isn't used on its own, so it has no applications that don't also involve other content. However, a teacher has to cover content in linear order, has time constraints, and is constrained by the fact that things that get applied together may have no logical dependency - so she cannot assume that her students have prior studies in subject X. This makes is very difficult to get "hands on". As an example, let's say you are taking a class in java and the teacher teaches you about loops, but you don't know about strings yet (or other data types for that matter), then she may assign something you have to code that only uses loops, but it is not going to be very useful, and most likely not the type of thing that one would actually code up to use. This is an analogy for what actually happens when teaching a math class. (I've been teaching undergraduates in college math of various sorts for 5 years.)
At my school science is taught well and in my physics class they were always making us do labs that show us how the science is applied and making us think critically by having us try to figure out how to develop an equation or proportion that would solve for multiple variables. Sadly I can't say the same for the rest of the schools because most college prep courses at my school don't teach you anything new but the college prep science classes at my school have good teachers.
For someone who is similar to me it is a good thing if it is "run like a bootcamp". If you isolate the ones that are willing and able to learn in the elitary classes then you can work with them much more easily. Just put the rest into a second tier class, don't forget them.
University is the highest nominal degree of education and therefore meant to be exclusive in its nature (at last where I am from). If you just accept a whole bunch of unqualified persons you will therefore not only lower the value of a degree but also the amount taught. If they aren't smart enough to learn it then why give them a certificate that certifies that they are smart enough? If they are smart enough but just don't want to, why bother dragging them along against their will?
You make a lot of sense, but sadly in my country, the USA, many of the large state schools are more concerned with money than education, and others are legally required by the state to accept a large number of otherwise unqualified persons.
Jonathan Taylor well, I am not too familiar with the U.S.A.'s educational system.
For those who keep saying Kaku does not know about the education systems in impoverished nations... Well no shit what do you expect. But for the US, a world superpower, how can we be so arrogant yet so bad at the very same time?
Well perhaps maybe then the US just needs to become a little less arrogant and a little less ambitious about trying to rule the world eh? The US does not _need_ to rule the world. Enough has been colonized, slavered out of the world by Western civilization, time to let it step back and share power with everyone else. (nothing wrong with western civilization itself, everything wrong with the domineering attitude, especially by its present flagship exemplar and champion, USA.)
The problem isn't the educational system...yes, it has its flaws...but the problem is our culture. We don't value education. We have parents who don't invest in teaching their kids at home, or instilling the value of education into them, or we have parents who are too focused on the grade their kids get. There is not enough learning for learning's sake. Not enough students are developing curiosity about the world around them.
Well the system is a problem too, but I'd say that the system can't be fixed unless the culture is fixed. People won't demand a reform to the system if they don't value the product that it is designed to give.
The "Culture" is focused on making MONEY. This is really the heart of the issue that no one seems to be talking about. Kids don't want to learn things if it doesn't help them later in life to make MONEY. That's really it. Parents want their children to be financial successful, which is understandable. So learning just for the sake of learning isn't always such a great investment.
That flawed education system is a reflection of how society values it. It serves a hyper-capitalistic culture that deems highly educated masses as detrimental to it's own ends. It can't see beyond the end of it's own bank account. Fortunately, there are many Americans who recognise this; unfortunately, there isn't enough of them.
We need to educate those parents! The deliberate dumbing down of America by Charlotte iserbyte, a whistle blower from Reagan’s office of education. They don’t want our kids to learn in the poor neighborhoods. I was a wonderful teacher that got into teaching and COULDN’T teach! They want these kids to be the worker class and die before 65 so they don’t have to pay social security, it’s all in the plans. Charlotte has a complete paper trail with real evidence it’s not a conspiracy theory. Please read and spread to everybody you know.
@@mike4ty4 The deliberate dumbing down of America by Charlotte iserbyte, a whistle blower from Reagan’s office of education. They don’t want our kids to learn in the poor neighborhoods. I was a wonderful teacher that got into teaching and COULDN’T teach! They want these kids to be the worker class and die before 65 so they don’t have to pay social security, it’s all in the plans. Charlotte has a complete paper trail with real evidence it’s not a conspiracy theory. Please read and spread to everybody you know.
in the title its "we have" not "us has" jesus how can you call yourselves educators?! its truly sad how bad education in the US is today!
The irony of this comment utterly overwhelming.
Not sure whether to laugh or cry. Maybe I'll just slap its mother instead.
From the many grammatical errors in the OP, I'd say that it's not at all meant to be a joke.
It might be a joke but you're right it should be U.S. or U.S.A. the dots are important to let the reader know it's an acronym.
In all, I count 14 errors between two sentences. It really is difficult to tell if they're trolling, or just stupid. I suppose the former is more re-assuring than the probable, horrific latter.
Michio Kaku just roasted him
One day two horses were sitting at a trough drinking. They see a car go by. The first horse says "Well shit, technology has made us obsolete." The second optimistic horse says, "Don't worry there will be other uses for us. We can adapt." I 1915 there were an estimated 21 million horses in the USA. By 1960 less then 3 million. When technology makes something obsolete there isn't an automatic "We can retrain, shift to a new industry, etc.... Sometimes there just isn't a use for those 18 million horses. The same holds true for people. How do you think the surplus population that isn't needed will be treated?
false equivalence. horses are not people, they have limited uses.
+An O'Nymous not necessarily when the cost of maintaining a synthetic is cheaper than hiring and paying real workers.
***** Tell that to the 40 man digger teams that were replaced by one back hoe tractor. Tell that to the apple pickers that were replaced by 1 guy and tractor. The world will always need lamp lighters right?
Thankfully, as a social species, humans are naturally empathetic towards their own kind. The horses are a bad analogy since horses were specifically used for transportation while humans were used for...? Humans are the ones who _create_ technology in the first place.
This is exactly why we need to adopt the Nordic model's flex security in which we provide massive retraining for FREE to anyone who is fired because they are obsolete. We cannot afford to leave America behind to advance business interests. People must be our most important resource, not something for the trash after we are done with them.
The fellow at the 6:22 mark nailed my early college career. The early math classes were "Weed-out" classes. The professors were very fixated on the words I used to describe my solutions, causing failures to communicate. They would dock a lot of credit for making a minor math error. I consider the education system to be tainted just like our monetary and legal systems. We define things as "Incorrect" or "out of spec" but in reality we are not trying to audit our performance.
The problem with incompletely educating people is that you reduce their ability to make informed decisions. What if everybody graduated from high school as fully functional mechanical engineers with strong comprehension of chemistry cycles? Would everybody go work for a high paying job, and live in a big house? Kaku tends to have a Faustian bargain with science. He mentions expendable planets, but doesn't emphasize the importance of the time frame.
Well said, Lawrence.
I'm about to complete a Bachelor's of Science in Information Systems for Business. Throughout the curriculum I've been thrown into group project after group project.
What I've picked up from this is to build group dynamics and rapport as quickly as possible, and to pick up the slack for trash-tier colleagues. The stupid team evaluations they have us fill out after the project give us a false sense of vindication because we inevitably see these same colleagues progressing through the program.
I agree that the management route directly from graduation is nigh impossible due to a lack of hands-on experience. That said, the entry level IS analysis jobs do require this silly degree. It'll be a few years before I have the experience necessary to shift into a project management role.
It's super infuriating when you get into a group that conjures up things without modelling them.
Kaku looked very very angry right there. His eyes went glossy red almost. Fascinating.
Hi voice got real deep too.
His Sharigan activated.
Its simple. Not only do we slow down high achievers to cater to the students who -failed- (can't use that word, they are non-succeeders) the test, we also forced children to sit down, shut up and learn without any form of playtime or working off energy because god forbid children have fun with a possibility of being hurt. When children need to work off energy, we label them as ADHD and load them up on retilin. Further in life, in college, we are more concerned with safe spaces and trigger warnings than the actual facts.
Can't pay attention to the mind-numbingly boring lesson? You must be ADHD.
The other guy's attempt at a half-sentence rebuttal was laughable. "That's not science that's technology". Does he realize where technology comes from? Technology is a _byproduct_ of scientific discovery. It has always been.
The world will progress better when all educational systems are designed to encourage scientific development and critical thought, not merely the preparedness of America's obsession with standardized tests.
I agree. Just to make it even worst, those standardized tests are actually not standard at all. If you compare it to other countries, it's super easy. I'm from South Africa and our school system isn't great either but the tests are way more difficult than in the US.
How about the effect of teaching 'Creationist Theory' in schools to make sure American students lag behind the rest of the world in appreciation of science.
+lloyd M Really this war between Scientific and Religious in this country must stop. Most of the people getting very high tech and high science degrees come from cultures that are highly spiritual and mystical but despite this have a love of science, technology and logical thinking. Only in the western world do we say pick one. It divides us and makes the otherwise brilliant student question whether or not to commit to scientific pursuit. The religion attackers in the scientific community are probably very much to blame for some brilliant mind, who was raised in a religious home, to not changing our world. I'm not supporting religion but am against bullying of any kind, including anti religion bullies.
+TC Chong First off, I wouldn't say any of the East Asian countries are "highly spiritual and mystical" except a small % of the populations. Second, the guy is simply saying that there are efforts by religious establishments to impose their ideologies onto actual school curricula and that this could be a problem - this has nothing to do with "religious bullying" by some in the scientific community, but simply preserving science where it belongs and keeping magical thinking where it belongs.
+lloyd M Really!? lmao… The education system has been on a steady decline since the 60's. Creationism has had nothing to do with that drop. It could be that crap they teach in public schools, you know the religion where all life has diversified from a single organism.
+lloyd M honestly that's like saying Foreign studies are ruining america. The true fault of the education system, we do not emphasize stem, we teach math and science in the most obtuse way possible as separate subjects, we only teach new math (as opposed to applied math) and our best public schools are heavily underfunded. Further the science we do teach is insanely watered down and hardly resembles science and we don't even teach engineering or computer science in most public schools which are currently some of the most usefull skills a person could have today
The point I was trying to make regarding teaching creationism as a 'debatable alternative theory to science', is that it belittles the value of science.
Why would a student want to excel in this subject, when it challenges his family dogma, and that of his piers?
When I was a kid, I had a chemistry set that rivalled the local collage. The physics equipment you could buy at the local hardware store or get through the mail were endless. The advertising in comic books and "popular science" was filled with cloud chambers, parabolic reflectors and other cool stuff. The first time a very poor example of an "improved" cloud chamber blew up in my face, my parents did not start suing the companies who make the stuff until they were out of business or refused to sell to the public. Safety was up to me and was MY responsibility and not someone else's fault.
this has nothing to do with what the speakers are talking about.... ??????
Yes it has. The current public mindset hinders America's educational system. Btw, +David Graig Remember how strong Pyrex was in the past?
Yes. I'll bet it's not anymore.
Michio Kaku nailed it! My son is a Mechatronic Engineer with a PhD in Computer Engineering; his first position was Adjunct Professor which has no potential for tenure. His second position at another university was a tenure-track professorship that did not pay enough for him to afford his mortgage payments... and *this* is in California where education is better subsidized than in most other states! His family's economic situation required him to move back to Silicon Valley (220 miles away from his recent professor position) to seek employment as an engineer where he could make twice the income. It's pathetic that even California doesn't value education like it should!
Although Michael Shrage's argument was way off the mark on American college education being unimportant, he did make an important point about contextualizing American schooling with practical examples. Student need to learn how to apply academic theory, especially in STEM subjects that are often taught in an excessively academic manner. What he missed, though, was that 'boot camp flunk-out rates' are not intrinsically the fault of four-year (and beyond) college/university education in America, but rather fault of a deficiency in teaching methodology. My son spent a few years as an engineer in industry before pursuing his graduate research & doctoral degree. His doctoral work was actually in neuroscience which would have otherwise been bewildering in the context of automation and seeking the potential of nascent artificial intelligence that Shrage touts! With that in mind, my son deliberately took one of his groups of students on a field-trip to Silicon Valley to see what's actually done in engineering in the industry where he once worked himself!
It is true that large corporations are increasingly becoming more productive with fewer employees due to advances in automation, robotics & thinking machines. As Professor Kaku implies, this is a growing tragedy for Americans who are slipping behind in STEM education & jobs that are being exported wholesale! Big Business is a globalist venture (powered by greed) that American oligarchs are motivated to export with a callous disregard for any sense of American patriotism or sovereignty at the cost of high-paying American jobs that are almost entirely technical or financial in nature. This trend is going to leave many young Americans without a future. The political climate here has been accelerating this damnable trend with international trade deals promoted by bought politicians, MSM presstitutes, and their rich donors who don't give a shit about American workers here at home! After all, they can use cheap workers from elsewhere, making most people here & abroad desperate enough to compete against each other and robots, pushing down their expenses to make a buck for their greedy little minority. This is vastly unfair & dangerous, and must be reversed before most people worldwide slip into a neofeudalism. Americans who vigorously resist this trend through political activism will be the vanguards of freedom! Automation is a good development, but only if resulting prosperity is widely shared.
In India competition is everywhere ..to crack NEET ,the medical entrance exam we have to compete with 15 lacs students ....I am just frustrated ....
We still have people that think trump will make a great president...
get rid of lefty wank and focus on 3r's again.
lots of ways that it could be but teachers unions too strong. and he hasn't even got in office yet. do u still think obama can?
I don't think he will make a great president, but he's better than Hillary. Hopefully 4 years later we can have a clean slate.
Also, the educational system really should not stop at the newer or younger generations. Most adults and seniors think learning anything new stopped when they graduated high school or maybe even got their degree. The "Stupidity Index" also includes adults who refuse to keep up with updated knowledge, be it science, history, etc. Continual learning in this country is not considered fun or valuable. And, this does include how our economy, legal system or governmental system works and the changes to it. So you have a populace that has no foundation of education and one that does not keep up with how the world works...and they vote. Although colleges are expensive, and I understand people not wanting to rack up debt, most adults in this country don't even read in their spare time. So there is that...
I for one welcome our new Chinese overlords.
What kind of stupid comment is that? What can we learn from a country that never knew freedom?
It's a joke, relax. That's an alteration of a quote from the Simpsons where Kent Brockman says "I for one welcome our new insect overlords" when he thinks Earth is being invaded by "giant space ants".
Gex9z Thanks Gex.
Gex9z Quote from the Simpsons?? No wonder USA is going nowhere
Gunther Ultrabolt Novacrunch Don't be a crybaby. No need to overreact either.
The strength of a person's argument can really shape the perspective we all see from. Michio Kaku says that we need more architects and physicists, and that the US has a poor educational system. Valid points! But, some of the comments I'm seeing below speak in derogatory terms towards people who aren't scientists or in cutting edge industries. To me, this is unjustified and shows a level of humane intelligence that is just as lacking as its scientifically challenged counterpart. Just as Michio Kaku has a perspective, so too does the rest of humanity. Not everyone values purely scientific and economically expansive growth. The world does not need every single person to be a specialized scientist (which is the opinion some people seem to have below when they speak so intensely against the scientifically "illiterate" and also frame the discussion in a way that places technology as the apex of life).
Some value creativity and human connections above intense, intellectual rigor. There are other ways to be a deeply engaged, developed, and intelligent individual. You can have a scientific mind without being a scientist. What is the point of a brilliant, scientific mind if you're going to merely take the road of Kaku's perspective to the end of patronizing others, instead of continuing the conversation in a constructive way? Where is the higher order scientific thinking?
I agree with you. BUT, the world works from an economical perspective. Based on economics, advancements is necessary because of competition and random chance. So I believe that’s where Michio Kaku’s remarks were coming from. If the world sways in too much in any way, things get saturated. Its based on the system of capitalism, it needs a balance. For everyone to be valued a new more complex system of capitalism has to be derived. The problem is that eventually there will just not be enough work and paid positions for percentages of people not in the technology and science fields
people from India use the same education and they become CEO of Google and Microsoft. I being Indian say that it's not about education system itself. Indian education system is not better than American. However the People's culture is what makes different. Indian people and Chinese respect education and teachers a lot because of culture.
what do you expect when southern states want creationism in the science classroom! ::facepalm::
Creationism is flawed but it doesn't prevent you from learning mathematics, engineering, or computer science
The simple fact that something like THIS is TAUGHT in SCHOOL and that in your books they have the obligation to write that the Theory of Evolution is just "a way of seing things and isn't necessarily the truth" shows how science is seen in your country. This is a joke.
you're part of the problem
Different branches of academia don't have to agree. For example, modern economics clashes pretty frequently with lessons taught in social science classes.
Jonny Watts And we all know how reliable modern economy is 8)
Michio kaku is my fucking hero
***** well you're right about the poor part lol
same
the irony is... the irony is... the irony is... *crowd clapping* the irony is... *kek xD*
Your education system is still better than Indian Education system
Micho hit the spot, and he has all the right to be angry for the declining education in the US. Wish there were more like him.
I know from experience that our colleges and universities are 10 to 15 years behind on computer science training.
Michael Schrage is the modern version of the court's astrologist, hence the growing and patently visible discomfort in Michio Kaku.
Michio is right on a few points. I do agree that our educational system is not as great as it should be. However, the hard truth is that people don't care about hard sciences. I've been tutoring math for almost 3 years now, and yet to find a person in those classes i've tutored that enjoys math or science. They complain and bicker about how hard it is and frequently ask questions about the relevance of math to their major. They simply don't want to deal with it. The thing that makes this country great is the freedom to do what you want. So we can't force the common person to like math. Other countries force their students to like sciences. That is not the American way.
What i would do different is create schools that specialize in sciences and math. These schools prepare students who have a genuine interest in math and science. In this manner we can isolate the ones that are gifted right from the beginning and raise them to take these positions of innovative science work. These schools should also have drafting rights to other schools around the country. They have scouts to search for this talent and fund them to attend these private institutions.
I believe a large part of that disinterest is carried over from early education, where a very narrow and rote "math" is taught. It's mathematics for a business world, and not higher education and prospective study. Students are taught formula, and not investigation. Formula on its own is boring, of course they wouldn't want to keep learning if that's all they're exposed to.
We can't force interest in something if people aren't given a reason to be interested in it.
the reason why these students dislike math is almost always because they do not have a solid foundation. They don't fully understand what is before them, and it frustrates them. The reason the question it's relevancy is because they are seeking any excuse to belittle because they don't understand it, and no longer -want- to understand it.
This is largely due to how they were taught math in their formulative years. Either something was skipped over for the sake of moving along with the rest of the course, or they did not pick it up as quickly as the others and were left behind. Or the teacher simply did a sloppy job. There are many reasons, but if that primary foundation is not there, then how do you expect to teach them advanced techniques?
the primary problem with the k-12 system is that it doesn't cater to the individual's specific talents. A simple solution would be to have every student take an aptitude test at the start of the school year, then take classes a la cart like you do in college. That way students proficient in math can take more advanced courses while those who struggle with the basics can take more fundamental classes.
math in a vaccuum is pretty boring, however in history there are very "few" people who really enjoy it and study it to a nicety. I mean really, the luminaries in the past 300 years on the subject probably comprise maybe 100 people. out of millions born and died.
Come to india n u will see every kid loves maths here...it's just about what parents teach them n if parents act like hollywood crack celebs and "cool"...maths for the kids will always be uncool.
Would have been a relevant topic during the months leading into the presidential election. Apparently emails were more important ...
#salt
MK: US has the worst educational system
Brazil: Hold my beer
His commentary is now dated, so possibly not currently accurate, but see: Richard Feynman's discussion on the system of Physics education in Brazil when he was there. It does not contradict your claim.
That dummy sitting next to Dr. Kaku, is like a child who interrupts his father when he is talking to someone.
What heck dude not rich almost everyone that come from india to usa are middle class or even lower just search for it .......they take loans and scholarships
Btw who is that man dude😂
I am sure there are many H1B recipients who are 'geniuses' but when I was working the H1B workers I knew were quite ordinary. The system has been corrupted.
I think recently, it has been revealed that most of the H1B visas do not end up going to immigrants educated in USA with masters or PhDs. They ended up going to employees for large IT consultant businesses based in India. I dont know which industry you are working in, but as far as I know, because I was an immigrant who studied in USA, most of my immigrant friends who ended up getting a job in USA, usually work within the automotive industry and they are usually laid off after 3 years because their OPTs have expired.
So IMO, the H1B is abused because it seems a lot of EE and CS majors ended up getting H1B too. My argument is this. If H1B is for skilled worker, then the people who are qualified are either immigrants with a lot of proven experience or have PhDs. But getting sponsored for H1B when you are outside the country is like pulling teeth. And immigrants with PhDs have a hard time getting jobs in the States due to the lack of "industrial" experience. But when big software tech companies arguing that more H1Bs should be issued and they usually hire immigrants with bachelor degrees, how can they be considered as skilled workers? With just bachelor degrees, they dont have either industrial or research experience.
The problem with our education system is, is that I know so many genius high school drop outs and so many idiotic Honors students.
I’m a PhD student majoring in developmental neuroscience, I know this first hand.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could develop our own human capital domestically, instead of having to import it?
Only if all parents stop spoil their children.
Mr.Kaku doesn't know about India's Education System.
The system was definitely better in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.
+Steven Funk Before the rise of the Left, marxism, feminism... The destruction of personal responsibility, and honestly, the intelligence of man.
How in the world is the Left and feminism to blame?
Segregation?
Nope it is not
@@spacefacey Segregation of stupid and smart, yes. Race doesn't matter.
My brother was a high school drop out who failed nearly half of all of his classes, his teacher told him “just do the work”. He didn’t want to because it interfered with him skipping class and going to...get this... the library instead.
He got a GED at 16, transferred from community college to Berkeley. Masters at Harvard. Currently doing his
PhD in Physics. He never regretted dropping out of high school at all, because it was bullshit and everyone knows it is.
Unfortunately, Michio Kaku does not distinguish between the need for H1Bs for PhD candidates and the abuse of H1Bs which is going on every day.
+John Nastrom What makes you think that?
+John Nastrom
Abuse?
People entering this country under a false pretense? Sure that's taking advantage of a loophole but to say "Abuse" would imply that there's something inherently wrong with them entering this country.
Hector Ramirez I am talking about the employers abusing the H1B system by falsely claiming there are shortages with the sole intent of firing their American staff and moving operations offshore.
+John Nastrom If people are needed offshore there is no need for H1B
Cristian Armaselu Not sure what your point is, but it is not as easy as it sounds to offshore jobs, especially tech jobs. Abusing the H1B privilege is a way employers get around this.
Michio doesn't know about Brazilian educational system.
Amigo Gabriel, tens noção que os Americanos vêem o Brazil como um país de terceiro mundo certo? O que Michio Kaku diz é: "competimos com países de terceiro mundo, no ponto de vista do sistema de ensino"
Abraço de Portugal
***** Meu amigo, quem o disse não fui eu foi Michio Kaku e, dado que é um dos homens mais influentes na área cientifica e, professor numa das universidades que referes, eu assumo que ele saiba do que está a falar...
Quanto a "as melhores universidades estão lá e o país coleciona prêmios Nobel" - Errado... O país que mais impulsiona a investigação em computação é a Inglaterra, principalmente na área de inteligencia artificial.... a investigação de computação quantica é feita, maioritariamente no Canadá, dado que é onde existe a unica "fábrica" de computadores quanticos...
Quanto aos prémios nobeis, apenas em matemática e economia... os nobeis da fisica são maioritariamente Ingleses, Alemães e Polacos...
Para além disso, na Europa estudasse, normalmente, no ensino publico, pelo menos uma lingua estrangeira... nos estados unidos estudas apenas Inglês... O acesso ao ensino de referencia é apenas para alguns, dado que o ensino de referencia é privado... na Europa, o ensino de referencia tende a ser public - embora haja algumas excepções.
Com tudo isto, não estou convencido que o sistema de ensino americano seja de referencia
***** A propósito: escreve-se prémio e não prêmio...
No Brazil ensina-se matemática?? "Quantos países no mundo tem mais que 20 prémios" - Em medicina, que é o mais preponderante para os Americanos, têm 12 Prémios nos ultimos 30 anos, e de todos esses, as equipas eram multinacionais... nunca ganhou apenas um americano... Podes confirmar aqui:
www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/
Assim, volto a frizar: os Estados Unidos são óptimos a financiar investigação, mas o sistema educacional é, francamente fraco... O investimento que fazem permite aos Europeus aplicarem o conhecimento que adquiriram na Europa e prosseguirem com o trabalho. É essa a diferença...
"Agora na questão de falar asneira, o prêmio vai pra você." - Os premios nobeis que referes foram financiados pelas universidades Americanas, mas poucos foram formados pelas mesmas, logo, o teu argumento acaba por reforçar a minha opinião...
O CERN, por exemplo, de todas as nacionalidades do mundo, a nacionalidade menos presente é a Americana... apesar de haverem muitos poucos cientistas no CERN residentes, dado que a maioria é baseado em bolsas de investigação e, como tal, temporários.
O numero de prémios por país:
www.worldatlas.com/articles/top-30-countries-with-nobel-prize-winners.html
É fragrante o numero de prémios que os Estados Unidos ganharam, mas este indicador tem que ver com o país onde o trabalho cienfico foi submetido e não a nacionalidade ou a origem da educação dos investigadores.
Podes ver no outro link que forneci que quase todas as equipas são multi-nacionais, sendo que a maior parte dos investigadores adquiriram a sua formação nos países de origem.
Assim, como podes ver, o sistema de educação Americano não é, de todo, uma referencia... O que é de louvar é o investimento que fazem na investigação...
Thank goodness for M. Kaku. I’ve been a listener of his and started reading his books at 15 years old.
Kaku is my favourite 🥰👏👌👍
Without science there would be no technology no computers no AI but now these techs are applying science to solve problems markedly faster than humans so this debate is essentially a stalemate
another point of interest is my friends who live in Lovelock, Nevada tell me that the Nevada school system is so broke the public school system students only attend classes 4 days a week! ya think any of them can compete with Shanghai students, not hardly.
I have noticed that in many fields, the people with the highest degrees and most education are almost never personally fit to teach those same subjects. They have no skill in how to teach or explain on the level of their students. They often feel as if they shouldn't have to dumb down the subject, especially career academics. I didn't learn much math or science in high school because all my teachers, except one science teacher who stopped caring due to being close to retirement and one good math teacher who couldn't completely teach all the missing pieces, were sports coaches who had no choice but to teach a class to keep their jobs what with it being a very small rural district. I wanted to do well in math and science. I tried, but I don't memorize very well by force.
My all time favorite scientist MICHEO KAKU
If he is your favourite scientist at least write his name right ;) It is MICHIO not Micheo.
+Manek Millano If you're going to correct someone's grammar at least spell favorite right.
Fuck u all motherfuckers
If we have the "worst education system" in the world, why are students from abroad attending American universities; what they should say is we have the worst grade school (secondary) system. I believe the grade school system should mimic that of the universities where students at a certain grade level should be able to "choose a major" to properly prepare them for advance learning in the universities. Auto repair classes, computer science, ROTC, landscaping, culinary arts, music, education, medical courses should be offered at the middle grades level or maybe there should not be a middle grades level. The entire system should have a complete overhaul across the nation. Testing should be done in accordance to their specialization like MCAT (medical), PRAXIS (education), BAR (law) etc. LEAs have too much say in what transpires in the classroom. The US Dept of Education granted the States the power over education but the States then relinquished their powers to the LEAs, which caused mass confusion. There should be one delegation whether it be by the State or the Feds
Worst "for science" as pertains to the fostering of talent in those fields starting at the lowest levels of education.
Dr. Michu once talked about how we are all born scientists but Junior High and Highschool cripples the interest(through teaching methods) and creativity and prevents people from continuing with STEM subjects.
Higher education in The US is high level but a large constituent of staff that run the programs are foreign and a high proportion of the enrollment in STEM subject are foriegn. This is the failure of the education system. Bare in mind it is easier and more accessible for a US citizen to access higher education than a foriegner. This would suggest the problem may be routed in interest and unfulfilled aptitude.
"I hate/I'm bad or can't do maths" is a common attitude in US Highschool and that attitude all but limits progression in STEM subjects at a higher level.
We should teach kids according to what they want to be, not what the world or the educational system whats them to be
Keep in mind he's not a expert in this. He's an expert in Physics.
It doesn't matter really. Almost everyone here knows the U.S. education is really messed up and you don't have to be a genius to express that.
Hahaha, you don't have to be some mega expert to look at how totally functionally inept the US public educational system is.
You committed a logical fallacy: Argumentum ad populum. It's not the best but it isn't the worst.
+Mystic Rust Who said it was the worst? Nobody. Nobody said it was the worst.
Read the title
Didn't Einstein worry that in America, education would essentially become a jobs factory? Doesn't that play a part in the uneducated nature of Americans? They care about miasmic jobs, not actually learning and being intelligent. They want money, not knowledge.
I would say that conditioning totally plays a role, as many of the people who are here on those visas very likely have little money in the first place, so they're very likely aiming for the knowledge angle with greater interest.
this is the fate of every low wage tech worker in the world. I see people every day in the office doing the same dumb shit with computers servicing the needs of other people. Sad...
well, it is a capitalistic country...so...
ShakinJamacian as an American I can say that not even just scholastically but culturally as well jobs are the major focus of learning. I remember in early high school learning algebra and whining because others had told me I'd never use it in the real world and therefore it was irrelevant, an error which I now comprehend and regret. Schooling and a culture shaped by people who hate math and science create mindless children only focused on getting a job rather than actually learning, and that's why America is in trouble. Nobody wants to learn they just want money in the bank and an easy life
Michio Kaku : US has the worst educational system known to science
The rest of the world : damn, so you mean we're worse than the worst?
Now I feel special for being an American and wanting to get a PhD. Though, I am half Chinese, so there's that.
lol
Yeah, doesn't count, everybody knows the Chinese are better than everybody else. ;)
i am british and german but born in the US (with a hint of a hispanic touch)and I want to become a quantum physicist. :I wish me luck.
Yeah, there's definitely something about those Chinese. I'm currently a PhD student in physics, half of my classmates are from China and they're freaky smart. One of my Chinese friends decided to switch from electrical engineering to physics, why? Because he wanted a challenge.
Here's a theory.
Premise 1: IQ is hereditary.
Premise 2: The Chinese that come to the United States are their nation's best and brightest (have high IQ).
Premise 3: Chinese are more likely to marry their own race.
Conclusion: You can be reasonably sure that the Chinese kid in your class is probably smarter than you.
Prediction: Chinese take over the world.
Thoughts? Is my logic correct?
Sky Lake
Chinese here, can confirm. The world domination plans have just been released, see you then!
There's stupidity... and then there's ignorance, carelessness, and arrogance. A lot of Americans fall into that latter grouping.
Michio Kaku hasn't seen the Indian education sysytem
Michio Kaku: US has the worst educational system known to science
Literally every country in Indian subcontinent: *Am I a Joke To You*
most indians end up getting good jobs
Yea US has worst education system most of the americans don't that there how many sider are in a triangle?
@ickisistheshitz obviously, its devlopment is really low.
@@somerandomguy7458 that's because of the hardwork of the students and the success ratio is really low, system still sucks
Kaku kicks ass... this guy knows how to construct arguments like a lawyer and an economist, not just as a physisist =))
back in HS 1975 , I heard an older teacher tell a younger teacher that the smart kids today are as smart as they have every been but the dumb kids are getting dumber every year. Now 41 years later of kids getting dumber every year , we are in big trouble. Big thumbs up for Dr Kaku, he seems to be the only academic that understands this problem
I never ever felt challenged in school, and I never really tried, yet I was a straight A student. School system in the US is a joke.
Yea it was a typo because I was typing that message at the same time as sending an email and doing other stuff. LOL People take everything out of contest [sic]
its context, not contest. well done!
Ck Tran Google what [sic] means. ;)
I watched the first few minutes and gave up. I have an MS in Biology. High school and introductory college courses are fast paced and hard. I did have a couple good teachers though, that made it interesting and understandable. Although my high school chemistry teacher gave 90% of the class F's on all the tests. She curved it so most people did not fail the course. That was a big turn off for most people. However upper division college and graduate level courses are quite enjoyable.
Yep, that's why I'm homeschooling. Don't teach my child about butterflies, teach her chemistry, but they don't. They teach about effing butterflies. Really?
If you are homeschooling your child, she will be as dumb as you are. Learning about butterflies is an example of teaching them biology and how a species develops. That's not science to you? Don't bother teaching your child English, either. Get a professional to do it. You talk like a stupid hillbilly.
@@vrinda5303 Lol. Yet kids are still dumb after getting out of Public school. Once more? They make dumb ass life choices due to it. How can you say Homeschooling is dumb, when Public school offers WORSE results than Homeschooling these days.
I agree with Kaku that the American schools are not as good as they can be. I used to teach years ago - high school level and adults. The last time I checked Finland has the best educational system in the world. When I think about what Finland is doing versus what we are doing, we have the ability and resources to change our schools. We just refuse not to. One thing I learned is Finnish schools assign little to no homework. I tried not to assign homework in my adult class, my boss shot me down and insisted I assign homework. If I was left alone, I would have ended up providing a better education to my class. I once spoke with a teacher who felt she got her M.Ed. to babysit. Teachers need support - and we need a system that trusts them to do their job and know what is best for the students. Finnish schools also don't have standardized tests - many schools don't teach subjects, they teach students how to pass tests. Many teachers are willing to do what works. If we adopted Finland's way of educating kids, I would go back to teaching. The system is a failure.
I remember being in "computer" class, only we weren't using computers and learning about related material. We were singing songs about slavery and the "Northern star..." yea. Nuff said...
(OUR "EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM:")
"Teach....... teach, RETEACH..."
India education system : Are you comedy me
I wonder how society would have been now if we innovated the educational system the way companies keep innovating phones or cars every now and then. Would we be more advanced technologically and socially?
Mr. Kaku is absolutely correct. I used to visit Universities in the USA in my job - mainly physics & chemistry departments - I was astonished at the percentage of Far Eastern students there doing PhD's. They were the majority. The conclusions were obvious - they will take all this knowledge back to China. No doubt they did. China thinks long term. The USA short term.
Big Up to my fellow Engineering and Science Students 👊!
As of today, 3 people thought this was about cosmetology
Michiu Kaku is correct but the other guy corrected himself to bring to light an important point. I remember in Korea visiting a university with 1000 professors of engineering and they seemed depressed and I asked them why? and they replied "this year the number of kids wanting to study engineering was 10 percent less" and I said "so what? you still have huge numbers... but why did it happen" and they replied "because for the first time, the CEO of Samsung (or LG I cannot remember) is a NON-engineering graduate". And such a statement has an important lesson to all of us. Most kids are not like Michu or myself who did a PhD because we loved the subjects. Most kids study to earn a high salary. If society does not appear to be rewarding those of us who study the hard STEM subjects then kids will choose the easy way out and enroll on business studies or law or accounting or management or whatever pays. The H1B visa would not be necessary if America rewarded science and engineering graduates above humanities graduates and lawyers. The problem seems to be that the Far East competes in engineering but not in human rights and personal and property rights issues. Hence, the American government must correct the situation manipulating the tax system and protecting engineers and STEM graduates. This is also a reason why "statistically speaking" and "on average" the graduate engineers voted for Trump while the lawyers and accountants voted Clinton.
If the us education broken? Why people around the world go to usa for education? Because of dollar? Or is there any reason?
To whoever typed the description of this video, there are typos all over the place and it's nearly impossible to decipher the point you're trying to make.
Clean it up a little when you can
While I feel that most of what he said is true, there are some examples I have noticed between schools here and in other countries. I have a friend who went to both Sweden and Norway because he felt he would have a better education in both compared to the US but found out he was entirely wrong. Both of the schools he went to were extremely easy compared to the school I go to with him in the US. He was as suprised as I was.
I agree with Michio Kaku. But I want to take it further. At the University level, there are many bad professors teaching the next generation of students. The education system penalizes mistakes and teaches to take a test, not to to learn. The education system is also run by accountants, not by people who are passionate about teaching. The stupid index is also rising because we aren't putting the best educators at the University level or even the primary education level. We are putting Ph.Ds in teaching positions who has a bigger priority than to teach, and that is to do research. If Michio Kaku says that we need more engineers and physicists, we need not only great teachers, but a revamped educational system that is clearly broken and built upon the model of the industrial system. We can't be creative if we are not prepared to make mistakes, and we are taught that mistakes are bad. At the University level, the consequence of mistakes is loss of GPA and potentially money. In fact, I think the GPA is what hinders most students from going into the hard subjects to begin with, because they care more about their GPA than they do the subject. Introductory courses such as General Chemistry is considered a "weed out" course and that mentality is what diminishes the number of students at the end. They have to "fail" a certain number of students and I believe that model of education is just ridiculous.
It really depends on who's your teacher, although common core is forced upon students a lot in standardized exams.
I think the reason American born aren't climbing the ladders of the STEM fields is because they don't have enough incentive. Foreigners are more than happy to work their asses off just knowing that they can live in a dump with 6 other people and get by on rice and beans. American born aren't getting out of bed for less than a guaranteed 6 figure salary. The current system is, "Go to school for 4-8 years of your life and accrue massive debt and then maybe just maybe we will let you have a slave job."
Unfortunately there is a lot of selfishness in academia and the country in general. It seems like all the people that actually care about teaching are teaching elementary school haha. Our professors now don't care about the students. They are doing their research and collecting their paychecks and gaining their accolades for attention and to massage their scientist sized egos. All of us students are going into debt and are slaves to the land owners and aristocrats that own this country and its politicians.
+Jack Middleton From my experience, I would say there is a lot of truth in what your implying, My advice is not to do what I did and delude myself that it`s better to attend nonsense college courses rather than sat at home watching daytime television, That`s simply determining which is a lesser waste of my time, I remember thinking to myself at the time in college that surely most people were here in a similar vein, They thought they had no better option, And I think the educational supervisors ( I will not call them teachers, Teachers positively educate students to learn for their own future interest ) Knew this well, As you say, They can afford to get away with all this because they know foreign workers can be invited in to fill the required posts on the relative cheap, I recently went by the college and it`s gone, Maybe people have worked them out, Either way good riddance, My advice is to learn only a manual trade or don`t go at all, It will stop these awful nonsense college courses supplying the occasion for these so called teachers to exploit the students and the State funds
Dole Bandit Yes, I went for the same reason. No better option. I also thought it might be a good way to at least make friends if nothing else. But I am a huge introvert, so it is basically a waste of time and money. Honestly, I am getting older and I am exhausted. I will probably end up in Aokigahara.
+Jack Middleton Well, I was also going to add that you will be with people of your own age group and some of them are quite likely to be from those you knew from school, That can often be the most positive aspect of further education, That aside, Listen getting bored and depressed at times with life`s routines is natural and perfectly normal, If you think your tired your body will start to agree with it, A change is as good as a rest is often right, You will feel better in time as your low mood will naturally pass and you will find new interests I can assure you, Visit a Jobcentre every week day, Something will come along and you can start from there
Dole Bandit That is just not how it works for people like me. You are talking about slumps or maybe teenage angst. I am 26 and people have told me it will get better since I was 14. People like me are the living dead.
+Jack Middleton Are you willing to get a job at McDonald's and another one as a janitor at night just so you can earn enough in the next 10-15 years to open your own business and buy that house you've always wanted. Also is the rest of your immediate family willing to do the same? That's what I never see natural born Americans (myself included) do anymore. We don't work as hard as the people who were not born here because we're waiting for it to get better. One thing I'm finally learning (and I'm a little older than you) is that it gets better by you making it better not waiting for it to get better.
apparently noone yet has cared to tell dr michio about what a disaster our very indian system is.
(I'm a person who has studied in both American and Indian schools)
Self criticism is highly encouraged in the western society. Finding flaws and problems within the system helps setting up new ways to tackle issues.
It's different on eastern cultures, where self-promoting is more encouraged which bonds with nationalism. It makes them see the positive sides rather than negatives ones.
@@user-mc6zk8tc8c my education system sucks. I don't see any good in it? . Well I do take away some of good things. But Im s3lf critical about my education system. Not all are fed the narrative
@@charioteer2106 Well that's nice of you then. You can criticise what you don't like about america or any other western nations or our systems, corruption or bad education etc. You won't be cursed at bcz of that. But if you say something about eastern nations, that's your funeral. 😃
@@user-mc6zk8tc8c huge population and big egos have everything to do with that
Rarely do I get to agree with Michio Kaku, but in this case he is absolutely right.
How can he be aware of schools of fundamentalist Islam and say such a thing?
THAT KAKU DUDE OH MY GOD HE IS A DUMBASS
+OmniaBonaBonis nah
***** YUP
+OmniaBonaBonis nah
+Mark Morgan I dont know what school you went to but where I went there was a full course on evolution as well as the development of the Universe.
The H1-B is not a panacea. The Military has a shortage of STEM P.h.D.s. However, that is because they can only give jobs that require those P.h.D.s to U.S. citizens for legal and public policy reasons. The private sector could use more STEM P.h.D.s. in some cases. However, it could also use more people who just have STEM bachelor degrees or even just training in machine related trades. Academia has more STEM P.h.D.s than anyone knows what to do with. www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2015/article/stem-crisis-or-stem-surplus-yes-and-yes.htm
I am not saying that the U.S. education system is not in need of reform. But focusing entirely on producing more P.h.D.s is not the right way to go. It might ultimately be easier to find a way to give H1-B holder's citizen ship and just have the universities produce more STEM baccalaureates.
***** I am not saying that having more STEM specialists would be a bad thing. I am just saying that we cannot rely on H1B visa holders for it because the place that really needs more STEM P.h.D.s, the military, doesn't hire those people.
Uh....PH'D are pretty rare in any society. Additionally, most companies don't need too many PHD candidates.
Actually they're not rare. A lot of countries have seen an over saturated amount of people with PhDs to the point where they're completely worthless.
Before watching this video. I can definitely see that. Actually. I learned more off of RUclips than I have in school. 😂🇺🇸
It's a catch 22 for the people who are science minded in the US. If you have an analytical mind and are paying attention. If college isn't paid for. It's not worth following the established path of a career in science for the majority. I don't see becoming a slave to debt as being an option worth my time. You can easily learn the same over the internet today without the debt and other burdens. You just don't get the paper that says you know it. I'd rather earn my credibility through the use of the internet and reviewed by my peers. I can go into much more depth about my short comings with a friend than I can a boss.
I'm American and a PhD candidate.
Most intelligent people are from India in USA.
Idk about that but even so the retard culture of the US will drag them down eventually over the long-term.
That's factually impossible. India IQ is 81, which is 2 points away from boardline.
Michio kaku: US had the worst education system
India: Hold on. I surpass you
From my own experience living in the USA, this is my take on the educational system:
If you can afford a home that is in a district with a good public school, if you can afford a good private school, or if you are eligible for a good charter school, and if you can afford and get in to a good college(which there are plenty of in the us) you are truly receiving a world class education. The problem is, is that too many people (although the number is small, it is still way behind world standards) can not afford a house in a district with a good public school, dont have access or dont support charter schools, or cant afford private school. Even if you get through that, there is massive amount of debt to deal with at the college level that most Americans would feel like makes the price way too much for the education they receive, even if it is a top university (which most american, even the average ones by US standards are.)
Educational system needs to change I agree because it's hopeless at the moment for many countries but we need more of physicists and engineers always. Any system needs to understand this basic and fundamental thing. Please do not overlook us the physics and engineering lovers and pay less or you are gonna be in greatest dangers because industries will change even faster than you are thinking because all individual techs are made in such a way that they can sync and work together, i.e., a great tech era is arriving swiftly.
Wow. I could have told you this when I was 8, asking questions about Gravity; and the explanation is what goes up must come down....
J B. Lol. Exactly
Education is as good as the amount of effort, interest, and dedication you put into it in my opinion. Lots of parents expect the educational system to raise their children. Education starts early and at home. It is the parent's responsibility to encourage and nurture the learning process at a young age. Yes our educational system is inferior to other countries, but one can still achieve great things.
Sadly, most students these days only care about making an easy buck and pursuing meaningless superficialities.
Also RUclips's business model as well as social media has created lots of self-absorbed, video/selfie taking "whores" who spend hours making pointless videos and taking pointless pictures to attract views. Most of these "celebrities" make the most useless content that appeals to the most basic human instincts. Lots of younger people don't want to work real jobs that contribute something meaningful. They just want to make easy money and spend it. I feel that social media, like Instagram and RUclips "celebrities", has given rise to social deterioration. Some younger people are so misguided. They want to spend life making stupid ass "look at me" videos and taking stupid ass selfies to gain followers and get ad revenue. There are a lot of young people doing meaningful things though.
I agree 100% 👍
More than 20% of US adults have difficulty writing, and some cannot even read a newspaper. It is reported by the ABC TV channel.
The claim that most English-speaking Americans can read and write at a basic level is not true. This was shown by a study of the International Program for the Assessment of Adult Competence (PIAAC) under the auspices of the US Department of Education.
According to the study, one in five adults in the US has a very low literacy rate. 43.5 million Americans experience difficulties with writing and reading. And we are talking not only about migrants, but about people who speak English from birth.
Is it true that the situation is so serious - or is it all about the methods of measuring literacy? US Democratic Party consultant Anton Konev believes that both factors are at play.
This is a problem that is very little talked about, as many do not feel it. But this problem is global. Not only for USA
Literacy for the US Department of Education is the ability to understand, evaluate, use and work with written texts, and interact in writing with society to achieve one's goals, develop knowledge and potential.
Why is the illiteracy rate so high? The devil is also in the assessment methods, Konev believes. The United States uses five levels of literacy.
The first level is people who can read so badly that they are unable to read a newspaper and cannot fill out forms in a government office. There are approximately 26.5 million of them. Level 0 - residents, called "functionally illiterate", there are 8.4 million of them. There are also 8.2 million who could not take part in the survey at all due to physiological and cognitive impairments. In total, this is 43.5 million illiterates.
Those who are at level 2 and above are considered literate.
“Yes, such a problem is possible. And the historical and political illiteracy of the population is quite high in North America. This must be fought, taxpayers' money must go to eliminate this illiteracy, and not to enrich the class of oligarchs, ”Mark Tagliano, a US writer and author of several books on geopolitics, told 360.
In the United States, only 55% of those who enter universities receive a higher education diploma, American experts Michael McPherson and Francesca Purcell note.
It's about the average. At Harvard, Stanford, and other first-tier universities, 95% of students graduate. This is a matter of efficiency and, of course, prestige. A low dropout indicates quality education and maintains the reputation of the institution.
However, the average dropout rate is also significant. In Russia, this figure is 21%, at the level of France and Belgium. In Denmark, Korea and Japan it is lower - from 11% to 17%. The average figure among OECD countries is 31%.
Against this backdrop, the American dropout rate of 45% is almost a record. McPherson and Purcell explain it by the high cost of higher education in the country and the *insufficient quality of teaching*.
Post-secondary education in the United States is almost universal: about 90% of graduates go to colleges and universities. But with the financial accessibility of higher education, everything is not so simple.
Students are increasingly getting into debt to pay for their studies. “More than 60% take loans,” the authors write. “And dropouts are more likely to have difficulty repaying their debts, which only further limits their economic opportunities.” And this is against the background of talk about the availability of higher education with all its dividends, such as the accumulation of capital: human (knowledge and skills), social (profitable acquaintances), cultural (new requests, general erudition). It is assumed that high-quality higher education helps to find a good job and increase their economic opportunities.
These problems are especially acute for students from poor families. By dropping out of school, they lose their chances of vertical mobility.
Over the past decades, a lot of learning research has come out that helps improve teaching. But this knowledge has little application in most US colleges and universities, the authors write.
There is a paradox: although the main activity of higher education is the education of undergraduate students, teachers are not given enough pedagogical knowledge. Their work itself is not recognized. Teaching often takes a back seat to research. Meanwhile, it is the relationship between teaching and learning, the contact between teachers and students that are the main indicators of the quality of education.
One way or another, the quality of education is hardly assessed in universities, except for the use of a rather weak tool - student surveys.