Thanks Gail... I'm touched how you reached out to me, when you had so much else going on.

'Insecure and blindly obedient' are certainly the character traits fostered in educational systems modelled on the Western one.

I'm going to write on the false narratives in my experience of Western education - but here's a view by Lola, of a film that shows the Western model of education has penetrated into so many other cultures...

https://medium.com/be-open/the-movie-radical-reminds-us-that-children-and-teachers-can-change-the-world-542544b31287