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The US's beginning levels of public education are probably some of the worst in the Western world, but its higher education at the high levels is some of the best in the Western world.
As is often true of the best things, the bestness is not because of the bestness of the thing, but because of what it connects with. The universities themselves honestly really aren't great. But what happens in them is often extraordinary, because they're able to attract the brightest people from across the world, and give them a place and let them shine.
Well, until now.