We are fooling ourselves if we believe Indian edu is great if it helps us do well abroad. Our education (the mainstream school of rote) has major flaws like
1. over-inclination to English medium, thereby killing a child's link to her mother tongue and indeed native culture. Have you noticed that the mainstream English medium educated student related neither to English lit nor to his mother tongue lit. What does that say about his development as a cultured individual for future?
2. Development of the rote learning parts of a human, thereby de-emphasizing creativity, linkages between disciplines, the ability to invent, the ability to balance priorities, and repsect other individuals.
The IP Indian-educated graduates create every year is nowehere compared to that created by folks in UK, Japan, etc -- the countries you criticized.
My wife and I returned after staying in US for 7+ years. We can afford to send our son to good ICSE/CBSE schools. But we have sent him to unique Marathi medium school which emphasizes experiential learning, creativity, balance, and deliberately admits students from all economic strata while keeping the class size to 30 in any grade.
