The US education system was not designed to teach or educate, it was designed to make people blindly obedient and to never question authority while loosing all creativity and individuality. It was also designed when the US had a primarily industrial economy and was never updated.
Turn inward and build your communities, vote in local elections, we can change this with their system if we build our own web, post on !seitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com about organizing locally.