Yes, this is one of my biggest complaints about American education, how we're basically trained to do everything the hard way. So entrepreneurs tend to be rather contrarian here, and often don't do well in school.
I remember the endless homework sets in engineering; school was an endless grind. It was important to work problems, but maybe…
Yes, this is one of my biggest complaints about American education, how we're basically trained to do everything the hard way. So entrepreneurs tend to be rather contrarian here, and often don't do well in school.
I remember the endless homework sets in engineering; school was an endless grind. It was important to work problems, but maybe not so many.
I have often wondered how it's done in the English system, my impression has been that it's very different. It was a long time ago, but I had a couple of English-born engineering professors, and I did well in their classes.
In the UK, high school students earn their grades from external exams at the end of 10 and 12th grade. With a few exceptions nothing else counts. With grades coming from external exams and schools being judged by their students' exam results, there is no place for anything that does not benefit the student academically. The constant grading (and graded homework) is a very American thing.
At universities, they have dialed back the practice of 100% of a student's grade coming from end of year exams to some degree, but it is still common, especially in engineering. 1st year grades do not count unless you actually fail. Generally more easygoing than the American system with the caveat that by the time exams come around, may God have mercy, you better be ready.
It's an interesting cultural paradox, I would not have expected American education to be so focused on grind and busywork while the rest of the world is on the "get it done" side. Vivek is full of nonsense, outside of a few subcultures most foreign students are not overworking themselves, when grades come from final exams, people take advantage of that.
In the A-level system ~10% of students receive the top score (A*). How is that a sufficient discriminator for the most competitive universities like Oxbridge? They would have to rely on other (more biased IMO) measures like interviews.
In the Australian system, each student receives a score between 0 and 100 based on their ranking in final-year state exams. I knew two students who achieved the top score in my year, and both went on to become Math/Physics professors in the US.
It's an excellent system for identifying talent, though unfortunately this talent ends up in elite US colleges.
Yes, this is one of my biggest complaints about American education, how we're basically trained to do everything the hard way. So entrepreneurs tend to be rather contrarian here, and often don't do well in school.
I remember the endless homework sets in engineering; school was an endless grind. It was important to work problems, but maybe not so many.
I have often wondered how it's done in the English system, my impression has been that it's very different. It was a long time ago, but I had a couple of English-born engineering professors, and I did well in their classes.
In the UK, high school students earn their grades from external exams at the end of 10 and 12th grade. With a few exceptions nothing else counts. With grades coming from external exams and schools being judged by their students' exam results, there is no place for anything that does not benefit the student academically. The constant grading (and graded homework) is a very American thing.
At universities, they have dialed back the practice of 100% of a student's grade coming from end of year exams to some degree, but it is still common, especially in engineering. 1st year grades do not count unless you actually fail. Generally more easygoing than the American system with the caveat that by the time exams come around, may God have mercy, you better be ready.
It's an interesting cultural paradox, I would not have expected American education to be so focused on grind and busywork while the rest of the world is on the "get it done" side. Vivek is full of nonsense, outside of a few subcultures most foreign students are not overworking themselves, when grades come from final exams, people take advantage of that.
In the A-level system ~10% of students receive the top score (A*). How is that a sufficient discriminator for the most competitive universities like Oxbridge? They would have to rely on other (more biased IMO) measures like interviews.
In the Australian system, each student receives a score between 0 and 100 based on their ranking in final-year state exams. I knew two students who achieved the top score in my year, and both went on to become Math/Physics professors in the US.
It's an excellent system for identifying talent, though unfortunately this talent ends up in elite US colleges.