I have been an educator in the schools and privately since 1980. While I enjoyed your post and don't disagree with your post I feel it misses the essential purpose for education.

Many believe being well educated leads to a good job. This is sometimes true but that too is not the main objective of education.

The main purpose or objective of education is to teach people how to learn.
If you can instill a love of learning bonus.

People capable of learning can accomplish anything.

In this day and age knowing how to learn is critical as any job you train for today will be obsolete often by the time you graduate.