I didn't really include distribution, I used 'educational system' and 'education' as the same things (which was fine in the context I did, but which are not the

I didn't really include distribution, I used 'educational system' and 'education' as the same things (which was fine in the context I did, but which are not the same when used in the context you are pointing at), and more or less assumed saturation or near-saturation of the demand for education. As was evidenced by the qualification in one of my posts that country-wide per capita GDP can only be a proxy when a sufficiently large portion of the population has received an education. So I guess you're correct, that I was talking about the quality of the education itself, and that I wasn't talking about quality of an educational system (as opposed to: quality of the education). But then again that's not what this discussion was about anyway, nor do I have any special thoughts on that, so I'm not really interested in going off on a tangent in that direction.