/edu/ - Education

Where I am from, India, Schooling is done by the majority just because it helps them clear competitive examinations, which help them get into college (preferably a good one), which then helps them get a good job. And there's sometimes when the schools do not mainly focus on the competitive examinations, so the kids enroll themselves into coaching classes (and something called 'dummy' schools where you are going to school on paper, which is important to be eligible for college, it's illegal but the government is a cunt and majorly dosen't do nothin'), so, the coaching specialize in training kids to score good in these examinations.
I feel this is a rather vicious cycle which sidelines education and creates a whole society made to do a 9 to 5 job and calling it a luxury. I also think that studying something just for the sake of "cracking" (i fucking hate that word) a competive examination is the same as to betray the very subject. This majorly inhibits the intellectual growth of the society.
But I write this from a point of major privilege. I was raised between some of the brightest minds in the nation and completed my higher education from Oxford, Harvard and Cambridge, which makes me feel as if I am rather incompatible to speak on this matter as most of them people participating in this cycle come from middle or lower middle class background, who live in 2nd or 3rd Tier cities (80%+ population of the country).
What's the scene with your country?