← Back to context Comment by terminalshort 5 hours ago [flagged] 3 comments terminalshort Reply 5upplied_demand 5 hours ago > we are importing foreigners to paper over the fact that we have ruined our own education system.Are you familiar with any of these scientists we "imported" during the 1930s? Was that also a sign of a failed education system?- Albert Einstein - Enrico Fermi - Leo Szilard - Hans Bethe - Edward Teller - John von Neumann - Eugene Wigner - Felix Bloch bilbo0s 5 hours ago Yeah, that's the thing, we've always imported scientists. So I'm unsure why HN User terminalshort is trying to connect this tendency to bad education?From literally the very beginning of the US we have engaged in this practice. I think Priestley himself came here somewhere around 1793? epgui 5 hours ago You literally wrote: "Some anti-intellectualism might be a good thing".It doesn't get any more anti-intellectual than that, you put it down yourself in blackletter.
5upplied_demand 5 hours ago > we are importing foreigners to paper over the fact that we have ruined our own education system.Are you familiar with any of these scientists we "imported" during the 1930s? Was that also a sign of a failed education system?- Albert Einstein - Enrico Fermi - Leo Szilard - Hans Bethe - Edward Teller - John von Neumann - Eugene Wigner - Felix Bloch bilbo0s 5 hours ago Yeah, that's the thing, we've always imported scientists. So I'm unsure why HN User terminalshort is trying to connect this tendency to bad education?From literally the very beginning of the US we have engaged in this practice. I think Priestley himself came here somewhere around 1793?
bilbo0s 5 hours ago Yeah, that's the thing, we've always imported scientists. So I'm unsure why HN User terminalshort is trying to connect this tendency to bad education?From literally the very beginning of the US we have engaged in this practice. I think Priestley himself came here somewhere around 1793?
epgui 5 hours ago You literally wrote: "Some anti-intellectualism might be a good thing".It doesn't get any more anti-intellectual than that, you put it down yourself in blackletter.
> we are importing foreigners to paper over the fact that we have ruined our own education system.
Are you familiar with any of these scientists we "imported" during the 1930s? Was that also a sign of a failed education system?
- Albert Einstein - Enrico Fermi - Leo Szilard - Hans Bethe - Edward Teller - John von Neumann - Eugene Wigner - Felix Bloch
Yeah, that's the thing, we've always imported scientists. So I'm unsure why HN User terminalshort is trying to connect this tendency to bad education?
From literally the very beginning of the US we have engaged in this practice. I think Priestley himself came here somewhere around 1793?
You literally wrote: "Some anti-intellectualism might be a good thing".
It doesn't get any more anti-intellectual than that, you put it down yourself in blackletter.