Thought experiment: This analysis is based off a premise that schools are for the purpose of <teaching>. This is no longer true. Schools are institutionalized

Thought experiment: This analysis is based off a premise that schools are for the purpose of <teaching>. This is no longer true. Schools are institutionalized means of baby-sitting and controlling large portions of the countries otherwise-unoccupied poplulation. Thus, they are run more like prisions than universities. This seems to explain the empirical data in a way which shows the system as 'functional' rather than 'disfunctional'. Although whether they are 'fit for purpose' is a political question, of an entirely different stripe. =/