HEC Programs: Necessity or Luxury?

All criticism of HEC aside, what irks my mind is whether it is reasonable to invest so heavily in higher education for a country where the status of elmentary education is far from satisfactory. Kinda looks like trying to fly aircraft with a motorbike engine.

The HEC needs to re-examine the worldview that inspires it. Will it be prepared to undertake such an exercise? The chances look quite bleak because of its belief in its infallibility as manifested in the following example