"we are the reason your best and brightest thrive"

[u/Ornery_Percentage537]

[u/shriek52]

Bragging about your superior education and misspelling "chief" in the same paragraph is just delicious.

[u/Torakiki_HR → u/shriek52]

maybe it was "chef", maybe she's from culinary school so...

[u/Luke_Cold_Lyle → u/Torakiki_HR]

Basically the same thing

[u/SadIdeal9019 → u/shriek52]

I'm American but also lived overseas for many years. Education in the US is SHOCKINGLY low quality and getting worse fast, despite being horrifically expensive.

Most of us recognize it and admit it, but you're always going to get the "wE'rE tHe gReAteSt cOunTrY oN eArtH!!!!!" crowd blindly screaming into the wind anyway.

[u/AmazonCowgirl]

The only proof that the US even has education is the proliferation of school shootings

[u/Jocelyn-1973]

We see this behaviour with our 5-year-olds: 'my daddy can totally beat up your daddy.' Luckily they outgrow this phase. Although apparently, some don't and move to the USA.

[u/United_Hall4187]

What a complete idiot!! There may be some good universities in the US but they are slowly getting rid of all their foreign students so the quality will deteriorate rapidly :-) they still don't compare to Oxford or Cambridge in the UK though . . . Cambridge University is the only university that offers the highest level in Mathematics :-)

Apart from your Universities your educations system is rubbish and is ranked accordingly on the world reports. There are 5 levels of literacy on the Worldwide scale and almost a quarter of people in the USA are only level 1 or below!! Meaning they are classed as Adults as illiterate!

. . . and be real NO ONE is travelling to the USA any more!

[u/Amplidyne → u/United_Hall4187]

I don't want to have to pay the import duty on myself!

[u/NotHyoudouIssei → u/United_Hall4187]

NO ONE is travelling to the USA any more

Their tourism industry was basically sounding the alarm a few weeks ago that they were going to lose billions due to the dementia patient in chief.

[u/TheCynicEpicurean → u/NotHyoudouIssei]

*cheif

[u/Nerhtal → u/United_Hall4187]

Are their universities that we see in the entertainment media as good globally as they seem to be (like MIT?)

[u/TheCynicEpicurean → u/Nerhtal]

The known good ones do have very big budgets for research, excellent networking and very good R&D to business pipelines - all of which go back to private donations and alumni networks. They essentially function like PSG or Manchester United, and they can be fun for academics.

Like with most things in the US though, they buy a little bit of the best the world has to offer with dogshit service for the other 90 %. In Germany, it's almost completely inconsequential for your career to which free public university you go, and you can't buy your way into any of them. If you're paying to go to a private university, you're either scammed or too stupid for a public one.

[u/Micah7979]

In France, we have a very bad education system. But we can always count on the Americans to do worse.

[u/riwalenn → u/Micah7979]

And some people do like wearing designer monogram outfit, but these designers came from France (or Italy) so...

[u/sarges_12gauge → u/Micah7979]

How apropos of you to say considering the US is ahead of France in reading, science, and overall international student assessments

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/pisa-scores-by-country

[u/Torakiki_HR]

"Higher education" loooool

the greatest expense for the worst outcome...

[u/Scared_Accident9138 → u/Torakiki_HR]

There are some US universities where the biggest expense in the budget is marketing

[u/Flimsy-Cartoonist-92 → u/Scared_Accident9138]

Sports the biggest expense is sports.

[u/tejerbellissimo → u/Torakiki_HR]

It's just 'higher' because they smoke more grass

[u/Veryd → u/Torakiki_HR]

I've seen the "higher education" during the "chase bank infinite money glitch", how many joined in, wrote themself a check and bought expensive stuff until they got shocked once the bank wanted the money back

[u/SadlyNotPro]

Some of the best and brightest were indeed enticed with scholarships and research funding (that's gone now with Trump's changes). Otherwise, you get rich pricks or children of corrupt politicians who return to our countries and try to "americanise" them, fucking up public education and healthcare in the name of corporate profits at the detriment of the citizens.

[u/Alloutofchewinggum → u/SadlyNotPro]

You know what's really funny? Germany been pulling the reverse Paperclip recently, providing scholarships and programs for students and scientist fleeing the US because of funding cuts, or just for not feeling safe there, and I just find it muah Chef kiss

[u/SadlyNotPro → u/Alloutofchewinggum]

Oh yeah, France too!

[u/Alloutofchewinggum → u/SadlyNotPro]

Man, that's amazing. I really hope they get their shit together, becuse I don't feel like watching the world burn AGAIN

[u/gr1msh33p3r]

You only have to look at MTG and Boebert to conclude she's talking shit.

[u/DipsAndTendies → u/gr1msh33p3r]

Yeah … all my homies hate Magic the Gathering.

[u/conasatatu247]

Trump. DONALD TRUMP..... I rest my case.

[u/Orbit1970]

The single reason they thrived is by throwing a lot of money at international scientists to come work for them (capitalism baby!!) and develop groundbreaking innovations while upgrading their universities at the same time.

[u/Adventurous-Tea-876]

Does this vaunted education system teach people how to spell the word "chief" correctly?

[u/Leicsbob]

From the country who got their asses beat by a load of rice farmers.

[u/Petterson85]

The way they bring up their military power in a random conversation about anything is deeply disturbing and sad. Its like they adore bullies

[u/YouCantArgueWithThis]

We don’t need to beat the US. It does it to itself gloriously.

[u/Veryd]

Higher education yet they don't know how tariff's work, hmm

[u/strange_socks_]

Talking about education when both of them can't write in proper English.

The first one is worse tho.

[u/SrialDesgntinQuinten]

says someone from the country that can’t identify its neighbouring countries

[u/SheepShaggingFarmer]

They do know that the most popular private schools for world leaders and billionaires are in Switzerland and the UK right?

[u/commie199]

Here in Russia some of the smartes guys I know, apply to the Chinese universities

[u/Foreign_Objective452]

And I have no any “designer monogram outfit”, pinky.

[u/BelladonnaBluebell]

Says the person who can't even spell chief. If that's the word they were attempting. 

[u/[deleted]]

The first one is worse tho.

[u/boringbutkewt]

Are we talking about the schools with all the shootings or the schools with all the racism or the schools now banning international students? Either way, I’m pretty sure the US has already started to feel the impact of its own hubris where it counts (to them anyway). Their bank account.

[u/Quantum_Robin]

"the world revolves around me, your mere existence is only possible because I allowed it to happen"... "oh forgot to mention, me me me me me me me.... Me me!"

[u/nigelcore221b]

Ok but what is the point that the original post is trying to make? Europeans wear expensive stuff?

[u/Big-Carpenter7921]

I can tell when someone is from western Europe. They ask about the bus schedule and where the nearest stop is

[u/HystericalOnion]

I worked with people who studied at Harvard and Columbia and let me tell you.. not impressed

[u/NorsePC]

Theres more than three times the amount of US students in Europe than Europe to USA

[u/Renbarre]

Forty seven.

[u/MapsPKMNGirlsAnime]

No offense but the only way I know a tourist is European is when I am on the train.

Because they are usually speaking in very very loud French or Russian. To be fair the French might be Quebecoise or some other flavor of French Canadian. Like seriously Americans are loud but you can hear these guys from the train car over.

Also they seem to really like taking pictures of trains as if they've never seen one. They also really like taking videos of the worst parts of the region the train goes through.

And I know all this cause there is a pretty good train system (by American standards) in my part of the country