Rattled by Indian kids, Obama calls for revamping U.S. education

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Source: Silicon India

Apparently rattled by the competitive edge that Indian and Chinese students possess over U.S. students, President Barack Obama has emphasized the need for improving the country's education system. Obama said that Indian and Chinese kids spend more time in school and less time playing "video games", indirectly hinting at the U.S. culture where the country's kids are not as obsessed with their studies as their Indian counterparts."The Chinese, the Indians are coming at us and they are coming at us hard, and they are hungry and they are really buckling down," Obama said at a town hall meeting in neighboring Wisconsin.


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