Hey look at China

[Anomalocaris]

Truly better education in the sense of producing well adjusted thinking individuals out of majority of the population is actually quite hard and costly to attain, and a process of many decades to centuries of co-evolution with the views, traditions and embedded prejudices of the societies including many trials and errors and continuous improvements are likely needed before it can be achieved. In China many anti-rational forces wrap themselves in the colors of patriotism by claiming to defend an ineffably superior Chinese subjective tradition over alien meterialistic influences from abroad. They gain wide circulation when the government itself tries to release social and economic stresses by pretending to champion "chineseness".

In any case, the communist government in China may not really have that much incentive at the bottom line to provide the sort of education that would really promote full spectrum rational thinking lest such thinking challenge the legitimacy of the communist government itself.

So for them it is better and cheaper to so construct the system such that people are still kept from wanting to think for themselves on many important front, but indoctrinated to let the communist government, rather than Jesus, thinking for them.

Letting the communists think for them is a truly aweful fate, but still infinitely better than letting Jesus think for them.