He makes no link between the idea and the reality. He doesn't tell us where the extra jobs will come from. And he doesn't even begin to explain how more education will solve the environmental crisis. Barber outrageously maintains that his plans are for the good of everyone. This serves merely to hide his central concern - the education of the middle class and the survival of the state system from which they derive their privilege.
Barber recognises that 'the end users of education are the employers'.
With capitalism in crisis, the ruling class will not continue to fund state education unless it delivers the goods. Indeed Barber, in a recent interview, explicitly recognised that unless 'standards' improved, schools would be privatised. As it is, more and more of the middle class will desert state education unless they can be assured of a more secure and privileged position within that system. But with limited resources for state education, more for the middle class means less for the working class. He does not say where the money for these and other resources will come from.