Right, so you meant that our setup is more mechanical and not intuitive enough to extract the ingenuity of the character.

I think what you are pointing in not just a problem in our educational system but a global dilemma. But may be you are right that we overstress uniformity and discipline in our system which may effectively reduced the productive of any system to mere mechanical.
Matlab, "sab ko ik hi charhi say hankna" and in that, I agree with you.

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