For all I know, it's the same everywhere. The only difference is that in developed countries they do a better job at making us useful ignorants. In developing countries they just let them be plain ignorants. Lack of education is a sure formula for poor and ignorant countries, but the kind of education we've been taught in developed nations is nothing more than a sure formula to create useful employees, who are good for nothing else, and terribly afraid of losing our otherwise meaningless jobs, so we do whatever it takes to keep it. All of this time thinking we are happy and succesful because we own a house in the suburbs and a nice car, and our children go to college to perpetuate the cycle. Nothing new under the sun. It's still better than no education, but it's still the formula for eventual disaster. Education needs to change its paradigms. No more lectures, for god's sake. No more useless theory, no more classrooms, education must be a life experience, not a pass through a pen sharpener. Look at the way the anciente greek did it, and see all they accomplished. But, that would create leaders. That would create thinking beings that cannot be easily dominated by the few who run the show.
