http://makingmindsmatter.com/2010/03/16/chinnovation/ Bill Costello’s analysis of current events. Tue, 03 Apr 2012 23:28:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://makingmindsmatter.com/2010/03/16/chinnovation/#comment-385 Robert Wed, 14 Apr 2010 06:15:39 +0000 http://makingmindsmatter.com/?p=1622#comment-385 In a word...rubbish. Many of the author's claims are dubious, at best. It's unfortunate that he has fallen for the modern educator's myth that "more is better" when it comes to number of degrees awarded. It reminds me of the claim, later debunked by researchers at Duke University, that China was graduating several times more engineers than the U. S.. It was later determined that they had compared apples to oranges. China counted anyone graduating from a trade school (i.e., diesel mechanic, etc) as an "engineer", and the total number of actual Bachelors Degrees in Engineering was roughly equal in the two countries. As for Mr. Jacques' book, I've yet to meet a Marxist leaning Brit that didn't promote the silly idea that China was a mere breath away from ruling the world. His analysis and predictions must be taken with a very large grain of salt. In a word…rubbish. Many of the author’s claims are dubious, at best. It’s unfortunate that he has fallen for the modern educator’s myth that “more is better” when it comes to number of degrees awarded. It reminds me of the claim, later debunked by researchers at Duke University, that China was graduating several times more engineers than the U. S.. It was later determined that they had compared apples to oranges. China counted anyone graduating from a trade school (i.e., diesel mechanic, etc) as an “engineer”, and the total number of actual Bachelors Degrees in Engineering was roughly equal in the two countries. As for Mr. Jacques’ book, I’ve yet to meet a Marxist leaning Brit that didn’t promote the silly idea that China was a mere breath away from ruling the world. His analysis and predictions must be taken with a very large grain of salt.

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