On: American Education: Much Worse Than You Think

[tokenadult]

This submission mostly pertains to English grammar and style, and is based on anecdotes. Another submission today

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2600580

refers to mathematics, and is based on international data from two scientifically designed series of educational achievement studies.

[friendstock → tokenadult]

Yes, this seems a bit too anecdote-based. It would be good to pair the anecdotes with statistics.

[suneliot → friendstock]

agree. pretty tough to make a universal claim off of a couple stories.

although, i do agree that ivy league education is very VERY overrated, especially for the price tag. although, in some cases the brand may justify the $.