[Vision2020] Foreigners in Math, Science, and Engineering

[Nick Gier]

Greetings:

It is a song of praise that I note that Chinese, Indians, and Russians, 
mainly because of their solid credentials, are taking positions in our 
universities that could be occupied by Americans, if they received enough 
math and science in our schools and if they worked hard enough to earn PhDs 
in these fields.

Correctly for population, the Chinese graduate ten times more engineers 
than we do.  We cannot compete unless we transform our educational systems 
and our increasingly anti-intellectual culture.

Nick Gier

"Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to human 
affairs."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who 
represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it."
  --Mohandas Gandhi

"Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be 
discovered by dividing it into its component parts and studying each part 
by itself. . . .We must keep our attention fixed on the whole and on the 
interconnection between the parts. The same is true of our intellectual 
life. It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and 
art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts." 
--Max Planck

Nicholas F. Gier
Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, University of Idaho
1037 Colt Rd., Moscow, ID 83843
http://users.adelphia.net/~nickgier/home.htm
208-882-9212/FAX 885-8950
President, Idaho Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO
http://users.adelphia.net/~nickgier/ift.htm

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