What I liked about the book:
- The author brings up a very important topic to our attention: persistent underdeveloped countries which have not been able to achieve full potential.
- Reading this book caused me to look at higher education in a different way especially when taking into account the perceptions that some people have of social science and natural science.
What I didn't like about this book:
- In my opinion, the author seems to be saying that the whole world should try to teach "Western" style academics because that's the best there is. This, to me, sounds a bit arrogant.
- The message I got from this book is that if you want to study something in college major in anything that has to do with natural science as social science is a waste of time.
I realize that this is the first book of a series so more are to come and all we can do is wait and see what will be next.
3 comments:
As a first book this is hard to understand, so many countries and the way they live grow have been set through centuries of history or religion.
It will be interesting to see how the books develop the idea.
Storyheart
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I definitely would like to see more of this series to see how it develops.
Cheryl
Great thoughts
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