Allow me to extend in "why is the state of education so abstract and uninspiring?" witch have a simple answer: because people without culture are easier to master. The target of all education reforms in the west (and I suspect anywhere) was and still is the creation of big flocks of ancient Greek's « useful idiots » to be employed as slaves, without even being aware of their condition.

Just listen last Klaus Schwab speech at G20/Bali https://youtu.be/DQjXODh0TOg where he describe the near future he want:

- IoT, poetically named Industrie 4.0, to allow OEMs control from remote, witch means de facto owning hardware formally sold to someone who legally/theoretically own it now;

- Sharing Economy witch means re-sell continuously the very same object, as a service/leasing etc making peoples compete to access such scarce and needed resources;

- corporatocracy, prosaically named Stakeholder Capitalism or Corporate Governance, but practically meaning: Democracy must end, substituted by a dictatorship of those who own and know against all others.

Followed by it's interview at APEC 2022 https://youtu.be/NWHDgXhMkgs where he state that China "it's a role model for many countries" and "we should be very careful in imposing systems. But the 'Chinese model' is certainly a very attractive model for quite a number of countries".

You need Gustave Le Bon bipedal bovines to realize such vision. Pushing the old « you were not made to live like brute beasts, but to pursue virtue and knowledge » would be a disaster for such model... People must know just the very little they need to do some tasks, NOT the whole picture.