Don't forget that, up until the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Iran had a modern western society under the Shah. For example, I roomed with a physics grad student who spent his summers doing laser research in Iran. It's no mystery why Iran has enough technical sophistication to build an atomic bomb. --ms On 2014-08-14 09:55, Gareth McCaughan wrote:
On 13/08/2014 02:36, Warren D Smith wrote:
Despite Iran culture and education system allegedly being anti-female, unlike the enlightened West, you'll notice the first female Fields medalist came from Iran.
She appears to have been in the USA since starting her PhD.
I think all we can deduce from this is: Iran's education system isn't so abysmally anti-woman that even a woman smart enough to win a Fields medal can't get a decent undergraduate education there.
That's a great deal better than nothing, but still consistent with Iran's education system (and, still more, its culture) being terribly anti-woman. I have no knowledge of whether that is actually the case.