Has anyone heard of foreigners clamoring to emulate the U.S. K-12 school system? I certainly haven't. I do receive, however, foreign delegations that want to learn how we organize academic research and graduate programs at UT Austin. This happens at least once a month. People around the world correctly perceive that most Tier 1 academic institutions in the U.S. are second to none and worthy of emulation. And how about premier U.S. corporations? Do they come to UT Austin or to the local community colleges to hire their top engineers and scientists? Do they set up research campuses and incubators around UT or the Austin Community College? (Please do not get me wrong, ACC is a very fine and vastly underfunded institution, which treats the most difficult cases of acute high-schoolitis and online-learnatis . My youngest daughter, a BS graduate in premed from UC Santa Cruz, is a nursing student at ACC, and I am pleased with the quality of her ...
In this blog, I continue to write about the environment, ecology, energy, complexity, and humans. Of particular interest to me are human self-delusions and mad stampedes to nowhere.