Macauley's Minute on Indian Education should be compulsory reading in every school. It shows the exact purpose of transplanting an education system, way of life, thought process, language - to create a class of people that will be racially similar to the population but... let me just quote the goat himself:
Official funds should only be spent on English and Western Education in India to produce a class of persons who would be racially Indian, “But English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect.” Such people would also be loyal to the British out of recognition of their moral worth.