This is readily apparent in East Asia, where the Chinese system of schooling, civil examinations and the mandarin official/gentry system only began to fracture when exposed to Western schools of thought, particularly the latter's advantages in the sciences.
I predict the current system will only even begin to fracture when it is no longer able to perform its primary function on a massive scale - i.e. to enable people who graduate from college to obtain a job.
I was being VERY optimistic. The system I just described would be roughly modelling the free market system, which education is not. Wholesale governmental support of the present system will make it much more "resilient" than it should be.
The good news is that the internet works in our favor--we already have alternative tools which mitigate the lack of good schools. I'm talking about Khan Academy and MIT OpenCourseWare, of course.