The reason we have public education... ...is to allow the economy to function more efficiently, through pervasive literacy, use of numbers, &c. It's in the int

The reason we have public education... ...is to allow the economy to function more efficiently, through pervasive literacy, use of numbers, &c. It's in the interest of the wealthy if they can off load some of the organizational details to a large class of literate servants, but that's not the same as giving everyone a shot at wealth and power.