Pedagogist here-- I don't have the time to gather a huge amount of materials in regard to this but it's worth pointing out that schools actually are designed to be, "like prisons" do to socioeconomic forces that turn schools into, "learn how to job" facilities. It's a natural consequence of neoliberal capitalism. Look into Foucault's, "Discipline and Punish."
It's kind of true. This isn't going to change in the future. Neoliberalism means, "if you're not 21st century valuable you're going to be 19th century poor" and this has me troubled. The conundrum for me is how you can develop an advanced society without advanced education. It seems like technology becomes a social stratifier despite the, "advantages" that they gain the poor. This has historical precedent-- so far technological advances have done a great deal to correct social imbalances (consider working class life in the 1850s) but they have also furthered that gap between the most and least powerful in society.
It seems that human culture closely follows power laws; it might be possible that, "elites" are a natural consequence of human existence. The question is how this will be managed in a world where elites have near absolute technical powers. It's worth thinking about I thinking about.
