|
Re: Dean's Speech at Nationals
Quote:
|
And what about the MOTHERS and GRANDMOTHERS who have paved the way before us, Mr. Kamen? You only mentioned the FATHERS and GRANDFATHERS. Shame on you! (I will assume it was an unintentional slip in the speech...)
|
We are starting to nitpick a little bit too much now.
Quote:
|
Once again, I hate to break it to Dean, but the fact of the matter is that China and India are catching up very fast and I expect them to catch and overtake America soon if there aren't wholesale changes (we can have our MIT's, but check out the competition to get into a university like IIT in India).
|
I wonder how many of the people in China and India actually get a decent education as opposed how great some of the education is. I seriously doubt that it is everyone. You are not advanced if only a few people actually get access to the technology. Also, just because you are really really really smart does not mean you will do better. The Japense space program really has not been doing to well. I recently heard on the news that American car manfactures actually improved the quality of their cars but was still under Japan.
http://www.space.com/news/spaceagenc...ce_000627.html
__________________
If either a public officer or any one else saw a person attempting to cross a bridge which had been ascertained to be unsafe, and there were no time to warn him of his danger, they might seize him and turn him back without any real infringement of his liberty; for liberty consists in doing what one desires, and he does not desire to fall into the river. -Mill
Last edited by Adam Y. : 19-04-2004 at 14:46.
|