There's not much doubt that education does something for both the individual and society. I'm not dissing worldly knowledge, but it's not a universal panacea for humanity's naked tribalism. Over and over and over again the biggest crimes and moral failings are committed by elites with "good educations" and who went to all the finest schools. We have respected scientists, and political and business leaders who had no problems associating with a convicted pedophile. High flying, extremely well educated people all but destroyed the global economy due to their fraud "sophisticated financial instruments". Now they want to tell us how to use language.

Our prime minister - who comes from a background of exceptional privilege and education far beyond the average Canadian - thought it was okay to dress in black face; something I, as an older white guy than him, and my friends who are largely high school educated, would never, ever in a million years, dream of doing. This same Prime Minister has the fucking arrogance to lecture people about the awfulness of racism and xenophobia and correct a teenage girl for using the word 'mankind' and not 'peoplekind'.
Hillary yaps about 'deplorables', when we all know she meant 'stupid', or "uneducated".
The arrogance and pretense of these people is truly astonishing. It's why they don't understand why the world's a mess - they simply don't live in the same society as the rest of us; and a world that doesn't do what they want it to has to be the fault of people who are stupid - right?

The word education gets used a lot like 'freedom', it can mean all sorts of things. I just find it maddening that elites and others toss out the word 'education' as if it were free candy, which is another problematic issue.
In the USA and Canada, education gets extremely expensive after high school, with a steadily diminishing likelihood of a decent job at the end being worthy of that six-figure education.
There's lot's of really educated people just struggling to get by at dead end jobs.
So when some elitist spouts some garbage about "education solving the worlds problems", they really should be called out on it. What do you mean, what's that gonna cost and what net benefit are you aiming to achieve?