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Its not the value of Indian education, its about having the right in the first place. Education was plainly denied in the name of caste(religious entitlement) and only very few had access to education until recently. As a side effect of british colonilzation everyone had access to education. But still it took several decades after independence(1947) for some one to get college level education. Vast majority of indians are first person to go college.

Now the op has a kid who is about to enter college which means when he arrived to USA he was already had access to college level education although had little money. The