Strong words. What do you learn in American university that you don't learn in, say, a German one? I know I could have done without two years of basic education in the form of GenEds.

You have to understand the American mentality.

I’ve talked with parents who told me how unfortunate that their kid can’t go to a good school. The school has a score of 9.2/10 versus the school they wanted which scores 9.5/10.

We can all thank Greatschools and their Gates foundation grants for making everyone think you can assign a number to the quality of a school (which most people in the rest of the world would think is nonsense), and to perpetuate redlining by making sure your kids go to school only with other wasian people.

The policy push toward simple reduced-to-a-number school report cards significantly predates Greatschools, which just jumped on the bandwagon.

Do you have any evidence to back up this rather broad claim?

> Because most European universities are crap compared to American ones.

That's probably true if you compare the average European university to the handful of elite American one's, but it's even more true when you compare the average American University to those same elites (even if you exclude all the unaccredited and for-profit schools, which really drag the American quality standards down.)

Ever heard of a little kernel known as Linux?