As an ex teacher I must say, that the level of curiosity in our kids is very very low. Clever kids they are but the reading habits of these kids are almost non existent.

I dont know how it is in the excellent schools, but in the rather good neighbourhood school where I used to teach, I found that even among the better students, there were hardly any readers.

We get the grades, doubtless and all the top scores in international competitions (though i dont know how these scores are nourished by overseas students (Chinese) and much training.

But thereat the excellence ends. There is simply no creativity in the system.