let me disagree with you about your point about top universities. I was at Harvard for a year and I had a chance to audit classes both in MIT and Harvard. Prominent economists both at Harvard and MIT are awesome teachers at the same time too. Yes there are good researchers who are not good in teaching as well as their research and vice versa, but it is not true that in universities with high emphasis on research, students will deprive from having good teachers as well. At least my experience is contradict with that.

Thanks for sharing your experience. I think however, we need to define the privilege concept again. I think privilege is defined and determined for each individual and it is a subjective concept rather than an objective one. For a person or in a mind of so many people growing up in community surrounding with working class may not be considered as a privilege but for a specific person, it may be the case. So in my opinion, I think privilege is more a subjective concept.

This is a very cool idea that IQ is higher generation by generation. But the question is, how IQ level is important to have a good society. I doubt that we live in a better way than or grand parents because we are smarter. Maybe they lived more peacefully and they had more pleasure from their lives. My point is how having access to more education, technology and having more IQ guarantee our happiness and pleasure?

Thanks Dr Nelson for your comments and thanks for encouraging us in class to write blog posts. I have been thinking about education system in my country but never write it down. GEDI class helps me to write my opinions and think more deeply about various aspect of education system in my country. Thanks for giving us this opportunity!

Your point regarding to mother tongue may be true for K-12 and undergraduate level but I think for graduate level all countries need to focus on English rather than the native language of students. At the end of the day, a person who choose to enter to graduate school, should read and write in English fluently and properly and in graduate school I think your point does not make sense at all. This a problem that most developing countries have and as a result their students could not be connected to world of knowledge and share their ideas with other people around the globe.