I think we are observing a shift of tectonic proportions in the opposite direction that is picking up steam each year, at least from the US perspective: flat earth movement, vaccine skepticism, climate change denial, “you don’t need college” meme, anti-intellectualism of the sort of “your educated opinion is no better than my pulled out of the ass opinion”, defunding of public education, calls to eliminate Department of Education… I could probably name more, but this seems like enough.
And this before we get into structural things that seem to be designed to thwart the goals of advancing knowledge economy: soaring costs of higher education, making college loans non dischargeable in bankruptcy, schools unable to eject disruptive students that are at the same time burdened with security preparedness caused by constant active shooter threat.