Two Million Minutes - A Global Examination

Contrasts the high school experience of 6 seniors in the USA, India and China

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• education
• global
• competition
• documentary
• trailer

[readmorephilosophy]

This trailer begins with a howling example of substandard spoken english. "American is the one country in the world..."

In what other place (another planet or cosmos perhaps?) could America be a country but "the world?" The speaker then ends his poorly constructed sentence with (again?) "the world."

Is too much parroting of Tom Friedman's slogans (the "world" is flat) further fostering this mindlessness?

Read deeply any book by Jacques Barzun to avoid bad spoken english like this.

[RobertMemphis]

Well... the speaker, Tim Draper, is a high achieving product of the US school system - one of the most successful creators of new companies, new jobs and new wealth in America, the one country in the world where his skills can be best applied. ;-)

[bodidley70]

There was a time when children of wealthy countries were told to finish their dinner because there are kids in poor countries who were starving, now kids in wealthy countries are told to finish their education because there are kids in poor countries who will take their job! Yup the rest of the world is catching up to the rich countries so you americans better wake up and do something about your schools!

[2MillionMinutes]

dweeb you are correct, we equate a quality education with the ability to support a family in reasonable comfort and safety.

If the goal of education is a fulfilled life at low paying jobs, Americans are being better prepared than their Indian and Chinese peers.

U.S. urban schools, in particular, seem to have mastered preparing American students for low wage jobs.

[unclejunglebass]

brah i got so fucked up in high school dude we are so fucked

[devilteen5]

We suck...

[kilomph1]

Yay public schooling! Yay ZERO competition!

[wentwithoutfood]

@readmorephilosophy I think you meant badly spoken English.

[JohnLeeMD]

@disclaimer05 Not really--it said, the boy was Student Body Pres, and the girl was an Honor Society Pre-Med.

[xXyZaThEx]

@readmorephilosophy Hey guess what? It's spelled "America", all your parentheses detract from anyone fully understanding your arrogance-fueled sentences in the first reading, your second sentence should NOT use the word "but" in conjunction with "in what other place", and Tom Friedman's slogans have nothing to do with poor English. You are the perfect case in point: you attack slogans you don't understand and you cite a French historian as a man who will deliver an American English lesson.

[DoNotLaughAtMe]

@Petrhrabal Maybe more creativity in america, but more academics in asia.

[Petrhrabal]

S3X The good what Americans have is rich social life, that is essential for successfull society... more communication, more wealth. Think Indians or Chinase would never found Google or Facebook...

[choibaedal]

@disclaimer05

nope, the american students were actually recommended by their schools.

[disclaimer05]

Is it me, or did they pick the worst examples to represent American students? Terrible propaganda.