This is world wide now.

Don't confuse intellect with diligence. Most education institutions in the western world are filled with "weed-out" programs now and have very little to do with intelligence, intellect, or learning. They largely are places where memorization, regurgitation, and discipline are the tested and valued characteristics bring promoted.

They will largely promote individuals capable of forcing themselves to attend classes a certain number of days per week, hearing and seeing propaganda to be memorized, and reciting that for an exam several weeks later, then brain dumping largely everything learned to repeat the process.

There is very little academy left in most academies now