Lol in what world was the US education system the envy of the world? We’ve been routinely clowned for overspending, poor outcomes, university tuition bloat, and everything else under the sun.
> Lol in what world was the US education system the envy of the world?
This one.
In most rankings of work universities US schools dominate the top of the list. Same when it comes to winning Nobel prizes--8 of the top 10 are in the US (the other 2 are Oxford and Cambridge).
K-12 and undergraduate are passable. The thing that the US excels at is scale. No other country can match the US academic research environment. Thousands of well funded research institutions. Broad competitive funding opportunities at every school.
It was a golden age of knowledge that is being crushed by MAGA.
You're not wrong. These people are repeating the same inane bullshit about healthcare in the US being the best in the world. Which it arguably is if you're fucking loaded and don't have to care about cost. But it's the furthest thing from the truth for the average citizen. The average citizen has the same shit level of education as they have to healthcare. But since the rich can get the best of both, "our nation" has the best of both regardless of how many fall through the cracks and suffer as a result. The poors should have just played the capitalism game better and they would have been fine I guess. That's what freedom actually means after all.
> But it's the furthest thing from the truth for the average citizen.
Usually "the best in the world" is not going to be accessible to average people. Top schools in the USA are open to the best and brightest people from around the world, average people can't compete with that.
