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While it's true that we can see how poorly the American system is run, how does it compare to the rest of the world?

I don't know much about the subject, so I'm hoping to get a bit more insight into this.

I suspect that even if our system isn't great and as good as it could be, it's still has a leg up on most education systems out there

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Perhaps it is much better than the educational systems in third world countries, but compared with the European educational system Americans are definitely behind. Or course being an American myself it may just be a case of "The grass is green on the other side of the fence." However, from what I have read they definitely seem to run the colleges better in Europe.

I have no first hand experience with this, but my brother is an evolutionary biologist in Canada. Many of his American peers complain of how politicized higher education is in the US; people in his field have a significant amount of trouble getting funding due to the "controversy" around their subject matter.

In fact, according to him, evolutionary biologists have been slowly draining out of the USA for years now (mostly into Europe).

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