| People hating on this index should realize that it is actually a very relevant and important one. The title is slightly misleading in the sense that these are not necessarily the 'most educated' in terms of actual academic performance, as people have pointed out. It actually shows how good a job a nation is doing of imparting basic education to its people. India, for example, is renowned for having super-smart students that Obama himself loves to talk about, but that's because this nation spends half its relatively meager (as a % of GDP) education budget on elevating the smart-rich, while leaving masses no option but to drop out from understaffed, faraway and horrid schools. Hence, countries like India fail majorly on this index. It's a damn good wake up call. |