You never saw how the finished product grew. You were just a cog serving the machinery. As this changes, we need to foster people in taking more responsibility rather than merely viewing themselves as cogs in the machinery. Educating a person for the role they will play in society is more like the old caste system. If you were an untouchable, you would remain in that role for your entire life.
Today there is more social mobility, an ability to rise and take initiative.
That needs to be educated, it shouldn't be merely rapacious. If I make my way through life with only my reptilian brain operating, I will hurt people in the process and not be able to learn a real sense of togethering. For that we have to deal with the limbic brain and the cerebral cortex and most of all with our spiritual stuff. Then we educate persons rather than roles and for people we need a whole different model of education than schooling has provided. Montessori and Rudolf Steiner's Waldorf schools were clearly early models of holistic education.