Oh, well, that's wonderful. Maybe if the Russians educated themselves a little more, they'd understand the truth.
Of course, I can't talk about the whole education, but in the field of information technology, computer science, mathematics, I believe that US education is the best.
The biggest problem here is how you measure education.
How do you quantify education?
You go to the UK. Oxford and Cambridge are the best universities, right? Are they? Will you get better teaching at Oxford and Cambridge rather than other universities? How can you compare?
The simple answer is you don't compare. You can't unless you go to them all and see and then judge.
What US universities do is ADVERTISE, they essentially tell people they're better.
Yes, sometimes they can attract the "best" professors. But how do you quantify a professor? Some are good at research and really bad at teaching, but you think you're getting the best teaching because.... well because someone has told you that you're getting the best.
Essentially a degree from Harvard goes a long way. Not because of the professors, the teaching etc, but because of the prestige. You're showing the world how good you are because you have this degree. Not because you got the best teaching. Potentially many of those who have done well at Harvard, would have done just as well anywhere else. They'd have learned stuff too, and potentially learned the same stuff. There will be exceptions, when a professor is amazing or whatever, but that can happen anywhere.
For example, I went to a university. I studied politics for one course. The professor was actually the politics professor at a better university. So, I got the education from the better university, but the degree from the not so good university.
What matters?
