Education is a vital foundation for individual and national development. India has one of the oldest educational traditions and academic systems and yet it has a large percentage of all illiterate people in the world. This article compares the elementary and higher education infrastructures and institutions in India, China and the Asia–Pacific region. At the end, it provides suggestions and recommendations to improve the efficiency and quality of learning and training methods and processes in developing countries while higlighting the critical importance of imparting sound values.
