Education Levels by Country

[Naddybear]

Which ones are (or should be) embarrassed?  Had a "euro" (I think that's a unit of currency, the adjective, I believe, is "European") student written this post instead of you, would I have been more or less able to figure out what the point was?

Umm... I cant figure out if this is a genuine question or you are being catty towards me. Well the correction of "euro" is pretty catty I think. If you want me to spell out the last four letters each time I can, though. Anyway, I dont like to make assumptions so I will take your Q at face value.

I'm saying European students, in my experience, are of a higher academic caliber than their American peers. Not "smarter", mind you. And I explicitly note that students who come here from Europe are likely to be good students rather than poor ones. It comes across not only in the classroom but in everyday socializing. I'm always astounded how just about every European student I've met is so well read in the "canon" and informed about historical and current events.

The point was simply, that a strictly formalistic comparison of educational attainment levels does not reveal very much. Hardly a novel point to be sure. But the rather mundane point was a vehicle to list two examples of why the comparison noted in the original post of this thread is not valid.