New Delhi, June 19 -- Saurabh Mukherjea, Founder and CIO of Marcellus Investment Managers, has scathingly attacked India's education system, calling it "ratta maaro and regurgitate in the exam". In a podcast, Mukherjea asserted that, in a rapidly evolving economy, the highest earners may not be university graduates but students who enter the workforce immediately after completing high school.

Mukherjea contended that learning in India continues to revolve around memorisation rather than critical thinking. Describing the prevailing approach, he said the system is built around "rote learning", or as he put it, "ratta maaro and regurgitate in the exam".

According to him, such methods leave students poorly prepared for industries being tran...