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In recent years we have seen a lot of stories about the educational importance of the early years. Now a new documentary, "Two Million Minutes: A Global Examination," (www.2mminutes.com) focuses on the importance of the high school years and claims that U.S. students spend too little time and effort on academics in high school compared with harder working young people in China and India. The documentary claims that the difference in the way students use the roughly "two million minutes" in high school will seriously affect their economic futures and that of the United States. According to the film, students in China devote 583,200 minutes to their studies in high school compared with 422,400 for students in India, and 302,400 for students in the United States.
Two comments about the film:
Timothy Draper, Founder of Draper Fisher Juvetson venture-capital firm: "America is the one country in the world that doesn't seem to realize it is in competition for the great minds and the capital of the world."
Vivek Wadhwa, Executive-in-Residence, Duke University, and an immigrant from India: "You've got to realize that in India and China...higher education — becoming an engineer, becoming a scientist — is a passport out of poverty.... What the film didn't show you was the level of maturity and experience you have when you come out of school. India and China are a lot more rigorous, but America's students have extensive life experience and can innovate."
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