Chess perspective for an high school dropout

Agree. Any place is better than the US. US is for the riches and haves.

My random thoughts of the day about the US and education are:

-I'm pretty sure that, objectively, China and Finland(or somewhere close, I'm too lazy to look it up) have the best education systems in the world.

-The US used to be really good. But we've been slipping a lot in recent decades. (True for just about any area, education or otherwise) Sad or amusing? I haven't made up my mind yet.

-I honestly don't know anything about Canada's school system. I'm still too lazy to look it up though, so it's my own fault.

if by "objectively," you mean higher test scores, then yes, I agree.

Just look at how many Chinese kids each year come to the US each year for our education, and try to remember when was the last time you heard about an American kid who went to China because his family thought the education there was better.

First-hand experience is very much biased. But if we consider first-hand experience to be authoritative, then I went to school in China for 6 years, and I can tell you pretty much anything about the Chinese school system that you want to know. And the first thing I'll say is, it sucks, and everybody in China knows it.

O, and btw, regarding the supposed "close-mindedness" of Americans, I will say this: if this discussion were taking place on a Chinese website, it would have been deleted long ago.

No, you misunderstood. I do not mean sarcasm. I mean it Any place is better than US. Pink Floyd : You don't need no education.

Things right now are "perfect", but as you age (can not escape that) invest some time in your "Plan B"

That is what I mean, yes.

gambitking, wikipedia is enirely trustworthy! Just like the rest of the internet, if someone wrote it, it must be true What I do is try and read everything I can, and find stuff that everyone agrees on. For example, Canada has a public school system. Even then, it could be a lie, but it is not that important (to me) and doesn't affect me, so I accept that it could be true.

Being a sheep is bad, I try my best not to be one. Unfortunately, most people in America are sheep, further adding to the list of things I don't like about the US (the government, the education system, the people in the government [especially the ones that should be institutionalized], the idiotic public, the list goes on and on). And, yes, I do know that the US is better than many other places, but the US is far from perfect.

English is a prevalent language, and both England and the US used to be major world powers, so it is a widely studied language. And we have lots of nukes and try to police the world, so our language tends to spread.

US University education is still the best in the world with the best facilities and the best educators. I have no doubt about that.

What you mean are math formulas, doing adding, substraction, and multiplication. At most it is about learning logarithms. And maybe some statistics.

what grade? college, high school, important difference:)

huriko896 -

Do you keep a chess board around somewhere in the restaurant? Maybe it would be a good way to meet new people, perhaps a famous player who comes in to eat?

I wouldn't worry to much about dropping out of high school. You've probably already learned that hard work and perseverance, virtue and character, are the vital elements you need for success. Best of luck to you!

You seem to be a big fan of picking sides.

I would enjoy to see those statistics performed on a random Chinese teenager vs. a random American teenager. I'm betting all you want on the American ; if you really take a random choice, odds are you will find a farmer's son in Xinjiang vs. a New Yorker.

If you make kids from top-notch Hong-Kong school compete with the average American, no wonder they score better.

I am not saying that the American, or British, or French, or Belgian school system is faultless, but saying China's suddenly got much better is just laughable.

at a university? Now I'm depressed.

go back to school

Depressed that the students seeking tutoring are the ones having trouble understanding?  Isn't it obvious that this is necessarily true?

depressed that university students have trouble with basic math.

lol mmeeaann