You really think that religious cults where you can only read the bible and are force fed lobster produce smarter people than schools ?
For every one of you and every one of the village boys there are countless others who failed miserably at everything and ended up either dead or in jail.
Maybe i am wrong, maybe the majority of the kids who left your cult and most of the thai village boys ended up owning at life but i dont think thats very likely.
No, I'm not saying anything of the sort.
I'm saying the circumstances of my freakish obsessive self-survival and compartmentalising everything produced a freakishly manipulative and cunning terror; neither of which I wanted to be. Whereas television and schools produce hundreds of millions of dulled down vassal children who are almost tantalisingly ripe for the plucking. I refused, nearly starved. My sister didn't. She's a fucking moron but compared to Miami High, she was a fierce predator.
Don't approach this in binary terms. The answer is neither the television/school conditioning nor the cult's sanitised chaos of brainwashing Jesus' cock into the consciousness of children to the point where it's considered normal. Nor is it the village, where children are preyed on by all their elders, big > small and only the cunning survive that shit. The rest 'survive' but by hiding out their entire childhoods, terrified of bullies etc. Mikes. It's no way to live and it's no way to raise a child.
I'm just making the point that I had zero education. And everyone in my school had NINE YEARS (not even counting kinder), and my sister was stupid but she could have passed. Other kids came and went and left over social problems but they could have passed scholastically. They're literally making you dumber by the time you graduate than when you went in at 5. You just don't realise it because so much has happened. You've learned very little of value. And they've broken your mind brilliantly by convincing you otherwise.
It's not ignorance that's the problem. It's ignorance that's been led to believe it's shrewd.