>About a year ago, while driving and listening to the radio, there was a call-in show about the state of the province's education system. There were all kinds of legitimate (in my opinion) complaints.
>But one guy called in and summed it up nicely, I thought. He simply noted that 'The education system is doing exactly what its been evolved to do and what society needs it to do - teach kids to become compliant consumers and nothing more. At this they are highly successful.'.

Graduate couch potatos, that's the economy's driving force.

If they were really educated, they may start thinking, and then may even start asking wrong questions, and there goes the system of free explo... trade. My goodness, they may even get to recognize their own interests, and (what would be unbearably worse) get organized to do something about it.