A big issue in the west is the school system will put lot of effort trying to teach children it deems "special need" but will shut down ASAP the ones curious enough to learn something outside the curriculum. Fact is, school is where intellectual curiosity goes to die.
I so much like those comments filled with unexplained accronyms. As a layman, it's so easy to understand and makes me feel so welcome, maybe not to reproduce your god-like black magic, but at least to maybe get a feel of what you are talking about.