This is a little excerpt from John Taylor Gatto’s Underground History, where he points out that if we didn’t justify the necessity of schooling, entire industries — most obviously school bureaucrats and teachers — would collapse. We need people to believe that there are unwashed masses in need of schooling, or else the economy would implode.
Considering the social harm done by mass schooling, maybe it would be best to just buy out the teachers and bureaucrats and minimize the harm done by schools.