I've been to several countries, lived in different ones and have many friends and acquaintances from abroad.
What I see is that different cultures put a different importance on: developing a good EQ or higher emotional intelligence in bringing up their children vs. developing a good scholarship/book-learning or lexical knowledge.
In your culture, or the place where you live, which do you think gets more importance in a person's upbringing?
I can have a start:
In Hungary, lexical knowledge is - in my opinion: unfortunately - gets disproportionately more importance. It is considered "rude" not to know a lot of historical facts and we also learn a lot of things in mathematics at the age of 16 which are taught only at university in other countries, while it is not considered a shame to not know how to behave in different social situations.
Like, how rude you are that you cannot tell by heart the name of the seven founding tribes; at the same time it is not rude or a shame not to listen to the other's opinion or not being able to hug a friend, or not being able to communicate in a proper way.
While I noticed that tha latter one does count more in Scandinavian and Northern-Finno-Ugrian cultures.
How is it at you?