Every once in a while (far more frequently than I would like) someone touts the quality of students and professors at the elite universities like Yale and Harvard and MIT and the like. The same argument is less overtly made but nonetheless also applies to elite private schools. I've never believed these arguments, if for no other reason than that I've had plenty of opportunities to interact with these students and professors and, frankly, they're no great shakes. And far too often they seem to be just like you and I, but with their ethical filters turned off. My education comes from the public school system, and my university degrees were from that intellectual powerhouse, the University of Calgary. I received a first rate education and I'll stack up the result with anyone from one of the elites. In this post Kelli McGraw expresses similar sentiments about her education and work in the Australian public system.
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