Education, and what anyone gets out of it, is a function and by-product of the individuals capacity and secondly their willingness to learn, no matter where they are from. Many places have excellent educational systems, but without a desire and want to learn, it becomes irrelevent in what will actually be learned, much less retained by anyone, in any culture/country, period.

I've known plenty of people who were certainly intelligent, but because they chose not to apply themselves in the time they were in school, missed out on the opportunity to learn many things that were available to them during their years in the public school systems here in the US, which I view as sad. Basically they squandered the only free education they ever had the opportunity to.

Conversely, I've also known people from families capable of investing in private school educations and then further on into the collegiate level who were absolute idiots, some because they didn't apply themselves, with others that even with such a massive investment by their parents in their education, just never seemed to "get it".

Having received nothing more than the same public school education avaialble to everyone else here in the US, then a smattering of community college many years further along for work related educational purposes, I feel that my own thirst for knowledge had more to do with what I learned, than where I learned it from, which I feel is universally true.

Idiocy knows no geographic boundaries, nor is it specific to any culture or race, but relates more to the individuals propensity to learn and their individual will to do so. And ... if holding a nationalist attitude about ones homeland seems inappropriate or foolish to anyone, my thoughts are that you must not really take much pride in your own homeland, otherwise such ideas would be easily understood and admired in others, instead of being viewed negatively