[agnivade]

On the 2nd point - what OP wanted to say was that students are just forced to learn the language without really understanding why it is what they are doing.

Teachers just try to finish the syllabus, and students just want to get marks. Nobody is bothered to explore the language, get involved in open-source projects, create something cool of their own.

[storgendibal]

Yep, that is true, and I agree. I found that applied to my math classes as well, unfortunately. It was not until I came to the US that I started to find the intellectual wonder in math (versus memorizing stuff). However, I was very fortunate to have some amazing physics teachers in high school in India, who taught from first principles, which was simply amazing.