The question may perhaps be best introduced by the old Platonic line that what is honored in a country will be cultivated there. Education is a dependent subject. It depends on what is honored in the country. It perpetuates and accentuates accepted values. What ought to be honored as distinguished from what is honored is not learned within the country's educational system.
Education reflects what the country wants.
It is not a means by which a country can raise itself by its bootstraps into a different spiritual world - not where education is democratically or publicly controlled. There is no hope that education can lead to intelligent guidance of technology without a national resolution that that's what education should do.