Our entire public education system directly reflects that of the Prussian empire, which historically was shown to develop an entire nation of citizens with a low level of understanding, all with the same information, a removal of focus on the Arts in order to generate a more logic based nation, all of which was used in order to easily manipulate and control the entire populace. However, I think they fucked up when they gave us the internet. Education is now available to any who wish to put forth the effort. We are currently in WWIII - World war on information. I think there is hope, though I agree that things are going to get worse before they get better.