Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!sask!alberta!cdshaw From: cdshaw@alberta.UUCP (Chris Shaw) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Potshots Message-ID: <241@pembina.alberta.UUCP> Date: Tue, 3-Mar-87 14:23:05 EST Article-I.D.: pembina.241 Posted: Tue Mar 3 14:23:05 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 4-Mar-87 02:36:46 EST References: <206@fornax.uucp> <3063@watdcsu.UUCP> Reply-To: cdshaw@pembina.UUCP (Chris Shaw) Distribution: can Organization: U. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB Lines: 37 In article <3063@watdcsu.UUCP> (Dave Brewer, SysDesEng, PAMI, UWaterloo) writes: > > In terms of prestige there is no question the American schools far > outrank Canadian schools. Of course prestige is not necessarily > highly correlated with quality, but in most cases at least some > correlation exists. Nonsense. Michigan State (Lansing) outranks (my alma mater) Waterloo on the all-important prestige scale? Gimme one exact Very Large Scale Break! OK, I'll admit that there are more Stanford/Berkeley/CMU/MIT's in the US. Big deal... as I have said before, if you multiplied Canada by 10, you'd get the USA (only better). Imagine if there were 10 U Torontos, 10 Waterloos, 10 McGills, 10 UBC's, 10 U of A's, 10 Dalhousies......... Get it? > And what is NSERC going to say if you say you want to go study at the > "best" institution available ? i.e. Canada has facilities in area x > but the best research is done in the States at institution y. > I would doubt very much that NSERC would be sympathetic to this view, The bottom line with NSERC is that you have to be VERY good before you can write your own ticket. What about all them Rhodes Scholars, eh? Where do THEY go??? (Oxford) Oh Nooooo!!! the UK brain drain! > Try not to become a man >UUCP : {decvax|ihnp4}!watmath!watdcsu!brewster of success but rather try >Else : Dave Brewer, (519) 886-6657 to become a man of value. > Albert Einstein How about a man who can think? :-) -- Chris Shaw cdshaw@alberta University of Alberta CatchPhrase: Bogus as HELL !