[awkwarddaturtle]

Highly educated immigrants could be a boon to a society. Or it could be a drag on wages of white collar workers.

Nothing is ever all good or all bad.

> In other words education is important but the focusing on education especially higher but also on the elementary level as some sort of indication of how well a country is fairing is not really a useful metric.

It isn't even a good metric for determining a nation's education status. The number of quality universities is a far better indicator.

Canada has a handful of quality universities. The US has hundreds. So how much sense does it make to call canada an education superpower?

[biggerbistro]

The number of "for-profit" scum schools that have cropped up lately to stands to challenge this idea further. There is heavy foreign demand for Canadian education but not always prioritizing the good institutions.

I had a Chinese friend tell me that in China it doesn't matter which Canadian school you went to, just that you went to a Canadian school. Nice to have that reputation but it is ultimately self-destructing.