Gutek, Chapter 1

In Gutek's first chapter, I found the 'brain drain' argument as an explanation for why there is a need for international education quite interesting. The brain drain phenomenon is when skilled people leave their own country (usually a developing one) to find jobs in better-paying positions (usually in developed countries). To me, this is a huge problem because this idea deprives developing countries of the pool of skilled workers to help their own society. There is no way a developing country can break through to become more developed if this keeps happening. It was only through reading the chapter that I realized that international education has ramifications that extend to have global consequences. If education and  the opportunities in developing countries were on par with those of developed countries, then perhaps there wouldn't be such high rates of brain drain going on. Conversely, I never thought about migrant workers leaving their home country to find work as another need for international education. It seems that both the upper-crest  and the lower-class workers of developing countries are leaving. And while for very different reasons, these points made me realize how necessary international education is in a way I never thought of before.