Interesting that you imply an equivalence between "evidence" and "education", when in my experience education was rarely about learning evidence-based ways of thinking and more about regurgitating a specific form.
A good example is the way the "scientific method" is taught, where you are given a canned experiment with a known outcome, told which pieces of "evidence" to collect and what relationship to expect between them, and finally how to format your summary of your proceedings. No actual instruction on method is involved, it's just a pantomime.
I've mentored many young scientists by now. None of them come in understanding how to do science, because their entire education - up through college at some elite institutions - has not prepared them for how to actually think their way through a problem. The only place people actually learn this is in graduate school, when you are finally put face-to-face with a real problem that no one else can give you a canned answer and methodology for regurgitating.
Education is bunk. I say this as someone who went through the very best educational institutions. I'm still recovering. I didn't learn how to be a good thinker as a result of my education - I had a good early dose because my dad was a scientist and made me think creatively. Then I had a long gap where I learned nothing until I had to do my PhD. That taught me a little, but it wasn't until later when I had to collaborate with other scientists and actually solve problems that I began to really learn how to think. Most people around me still can't do this - most of what I spend my day doing is helping other people break down their problem to the point where they are able to apply some more rudimentary skillset to it.
The real purpose of education seems to me to be to separate children from adults, and thus prevent them from learning anything useful until they re-encounter actual adults again, decades later.