[Balgair]

I think that there needs to be a delineation between undergraduate education and secondary/primary education. With undergraduate education, I think there is a good case to be made that it is about credentialing. Many undergrad students, just via the filter that is the admissions process, are capable and likely going to be tax-payers and not tax-users, so-to-speak.

For primary/secondary education, it is about education. However, it's not just math and history education, it's how to be an adult as well. School dances, sports, yearbook, school newspaper, etc. are all education for young adults just like knowing to let others finish their sentences, not using violence when frustrated, or that looking at porn in the stairwell is not a good way to woo your crush. Education is more of a socialization 'thingy' than a just knowledge one. As such, you need role-models, teachers, and mentors in your life, not on a screen that you can turn off when you don't like what they are saying. Education, in the HS time period of puberty, is not fit for a consumer model as it takes true sacrifice.