monarchist on Nostr: It strikes me as misguided, but to politicians the math is thus: high school and ...

It strikes me as misguided, but to politicians the math is thus: high school and college educated kids make more money, so educate everyone.

This just promotes incompetents.

The subconscious social reason for education is as you state: to tame and indoctrinate.

But I think that's at a level even below politics!