You hit the nail on the head. It's not that simple. I was born and raised in India and I have seen hordes of supposedly "educated" Indian people with degrees littering and making a nuisance of themselves; and seen a lot of Indians who didn't have a formal education be much more conscientious about cleanliness and such because their family raised them that way.

It's some combination of moral education, culture, science, and psychology. Even religion can play a role, especially in India where it's so important for a majority of the people.

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satvikpendem 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Degrees doesn't mean someone was brought up with cleanliness as a value, that's not what they mean by "educated." It's education of taking care of your general area and environment, not general schooling.

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quadrifoliate 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> It's education of taking care of your general area and environment, not general schooling.

I kind of know what you mean, but feel like we are going into No True Scotsman territory with the "well, that's not what education really means".

Degrees and such are typically the yardstick by which education is measured; if attainment of this education as measured by those yardsticks does not correlate with cleanliness, then the conclusion must be "The education system in India is broken and we should emphasize cleanliness in the education system" rather than "Education will solve cleanliness, it's that simple".

	▲	satvikpendem 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think you just misunderstood the meaning of the word education in their comment, they clearly meant educating on cleanliness not in the literal K through university education system.