That meme is from the Hindi film "3 Idiots" and it is part of that portion where the hero, Ranchoddas Shyamaldas Chanchad ( played by Aamir Khan ), is trying to explain to the professor what a machine is in simple words. The professor instead wants the explanation in bookish wording.
This is that funny vid.
That is the problem in all of South Asia, not just in India, despite great potential. The education systems and the social cultures are not meant to create or nurture thinkers. They are generally meant to create drones who have a limited role in the entirety of the societies and do no more than what they are told to do. Which is why there has neither been a Yuri Gagarin moment here nor a Che Guevara moment since the World War 2 ended.
The education systems must change. That is how the potential will be realized into actual brilliance.
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Aryabhatta? Bhaskara? These names mean anything to you?
India today is still picking up pieces from where it was before foreign invasions, culture wars and macaulay style forcible de-education (over a century) and artificial famines and de-industrialisation left it in the mid 20th century (only to be still saddled with brown elite sahibs instead of foreign ones that continued the meek controlled opposition their former masters taught them)....yet still in the thick of all of that produced minds like Ramanujan and CV Raman. So of course its average education system is still a long way to go to even get to where it once was long ago.
Your examples are pretty bad too. The USSR produced very little original science and engineering....their space program was specifically built upon (captured) Nazi German Scientists....Korolev even admitted this openly (he despised the German influence as the credit would be spread).
Che Guevara, the less said the better from me. The guy rounded up kids and teenagers and shot them in the head himself in school playgrounds. Sums up exactly what he was:
February 18, 1957 the rural guide Eutimio Guerra, accused of passing information to the enemy, is prosecuted by the rebels and sentenced to death. At the moment of the execution, his companions were undecided to shoot him, and that's when Che stepped forwards, draws his pistol killing Eutimio with a shot in the temple, describing the act in his diary of the Sierra Maestra:
“….I ended the problem giving him a shot with a 32 (caliber) pistol in the right side of the brain, with exit orifice in the right temporal. He gasped for a little while and was dead. Upon proceeding to remove his belongings I couldn’t get off the watch tied by a chain to his belt, and then he told me in a steady voice farther away than fear: “Yank it off, boy, what does it matter…. I did so and his possessions were now mine.” [1]. Later Che will write in his diary:
“….to executes a human being is something ugly, but exemplary. From now on nobody here will refer to me again as the tooth-drawer of the guerrilla.” In a letter to his father referring to this execution he writes:
"I'd like to confess, papa, at that moment I discovered that I really like killing."
Marcos Bravo, leader of the Movimiento 26 de Julio, in his book “La Otra Cara Del Che”, narrate that a 17 years old government soldier, captured and interrogated by Che, answered: “I haven't killed anyone, comandante. I just got out here! I'm an only son, my mother's a widow and I joined the army for the salary, to send it to her every month...don't kill me!."
"Don't kill me! -- why?,"Che replied. The young soldier was tied up in front of a recently dug pit and shot.
https://www.cubanet.org/htdocs/CNews/y09/enero09/23_O_3.html (NSFW language in there)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/12-dark-facts-che-guevara-who-more-complex-than-his-image-kisia
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