<<BTW education in Mexico is free (unlike the U.S.) therefore anyone who wants to become a doctor, a lawyer, etc. can do it.>>
This is not completetly true, in Mexico most public schools have a very low educational system so in order to get a quality education students must go to private schools. This is evident as middle class and high class parents send their kids to private schools. In colleges is the same situation many public universities are infested of parasite professor who only are ready to receive their salaries, producing at the same time low quality students who arent competitive in a globalized world. It's ironic that the private schools and colleges presented in Mexico are some of the best of Latin America and are able to compete with schools and colleges from Europe, the US, Canada Japan etc without any problem.
In other words, you can get acces to high quality education in Mexico only if you have money otherwise the public schools available won't be of much help if you wanna be competitive in a globalized world.
And before you start complaining about the wonders of the UNAM, IPN, and other public universities let me remind you how the wonderful "CGH", Unions, "the Mosh" and other parasites have screwed what used to be excellent academic choices. The Union of corrupt as hell "Esther Gordillo" is a living proof of how public education in Mexico can be sacrified in order to get political favosr and satisfy the greed of a criminal union leader by buying voters in exchange for a sandwich and a bottle of water (no kidding). The ITESM and the ITAM (both private universities) currently produces some of the most qualified graduated students, but quality eduacation isn't cheap in Mexico and you need to have a lot of money in order to enter into a private university.
This is not completetly true, in Mexico most public schools have a very low educational system so in order to get a quality education students must go to private schools. This is evident as middle class and high class parents send their kids to private schools. In colleges is the same situation many public universities are infested of parasite professor who only are ready to receive their salaries, producing at the same time low quality students who arent competitive in a globalized world. It's ironic that the private schools and colleges presented in Mexico are some of the best of Latin America and are able to compete with schools and colleges from Europe, the US, Canada Japan etc without any problem.
In other words, you can get acces to high quality education in Mexico only if you have money otherwise the public schools available won't be of much help if you wanna be competitive in a globalized world.
And before you start complaining about the wonders of the UNAM, IPN, and other public universities let me remind you how the wonderful "CGH", Unions, "the Mosh" and other parasites have screwed what used to be excellent academic choices. The Union of corrupt as hell "Esther Gordillo" is a living proof of how public education in Mexico can be sacrified in order to get political favosr and satisfy the greed of a criminal union leader by buying voters in exchange for a sandwich and a bottle of water (no kidding). The ITESM and the ITAM (both private universities) currently produces some of the most qualified graduated students, but quality eduacation isn't cheap in Mexico and you need to have a lot of money in order to enter into a private university.