Billions of people from countries like India and China are striving hard to “out-educate” Americans in mathematics and technology, President Barack Obama has said while stressing on education reforms to prepare Americans for a global economy where “jobs can go anywhere.”
“In previous generations, America's standing economically was so much higher than everybody else’s that we did not have a lot of competition,” Obama said. “Now you have got billions of people from Beijing to Bangalore to Moscow, all of whom are competing with you directly.