I think that schools are a large part of the problem. In my many years of education I can only remember three teachers who were good. All the others were either mediocre or completely useless.

One doesn't seem to get these problems with part time education where the students are working at a job and struggling to learn in their spare time, and their teachers are drawn from the working public and understand the needs of struggling students.

Stop school at fifteen and send the kids out to work. They don't want to be at school anyway and if the education system hasn't taught them enough in fifteen years (or ten if they started school at five) then they have had their chance.

Expecting grown men and women to stay in school and be treated as children is just asking for trouble.