Ashok Nayar analyses what’s wrong with the Indian education system:

My professor referred to models being a framework for the spread of knowledge and information and I found this extremely profound. He compared our western culture to inefficient societies such as India or China. His examples included The Great Wall of China and the Taj Mahal. You see these magnificent examples of engineering and artisitic brilliance, yet the majority of Chinese or Indians living around these wonders will typically live below the poverty line. Why is this? Is it a result of a lack of model based learning, leading to an inefficiency in the spread of information and knowledge? Or is it simply a result of a lack of distribution of wealth? Or even more importantly, is one a result of the other?