Three levels of brain power.

"How did a country of nine million (Israel) - between one-half and one-third of Karachi's population - managed to subdue 400 Arabs?" Dawn. The secret weapon is "brain power". "Regarded as the primary natural resource by Jews inside and outside Israel it is an obsession for parents who, spoon by spoon, zealously ladle knowledge into their children. The state too knows its responsibility: Israel has more museums and libraries per capita than any other country." "By the 10th grade of the secular bagut system, smarter students will be learning calculus and differential equations together with probability, trigonometry and theorem proving." "There is only one Muslim country that Israel truly fears - Iran." What about India? "The Right to Education Act 2009, also known as the RTE Act 2009, was enacted by the Parliament of India on 4 August 2009," TOI. To protect children from poorer families with illiterate parents "The Right to Education Act mandates that no child can be held back or expelled from school till class 8." Since exams were stopped there was no way of finding out if children were learning anything, so teachers stopped teaching. Standards dropped precipitously. In 2013, "Strange as it may sound, a majority of Class 5 students are not able to comprehend textbooks meant for students of Class 2." India Today. "Concerned over the declining standards of education at the primary and elementary levels, the state assembly, cutting across party lines, sought earlier this week re-introduction of the Class 5 and 8 examinations to check a further dip." India's declining standards were noted even by the Pakistani newspaper Dawn, which quoted Rukmini Banerji of Pratham. After schools were shut for two years due to the coronavirus epidemic, children from poor families have fallen further behind, said Prof Jean Dreze. "Schools were closed for nearly two years," and "Children with no access to online education were more or less abandoned by the schooling system." If their foundation is weak, children are unlikely to learn from higher education. "In some good news to the millions of graduates and to the education system in the country as a whole, where for many years 70 percent of professional degree holders were found to be unemployable," by 2019, over 46 percent of students were found to be fit to be employed, Mint. Unfortunately, 80% of engineers were unfit for any job in the knowledge economy, BI. If that is not bad enough, syllabus for the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has been changed allegedly due to political reasons, TIE. This has been labeled 'saffronisation'. This has resulted in 3 classes of school education, The Print. "Students from super elite class would go to international board schools, middle-class students to CBSE and ICSE schools and the marginalised to state board institutions. No wonder India is having to buy high grade weapons from Israel, ORF. After all, genius is 99% perspiration. Not politics.