Because both are becoming obsolete curiosities. Our schools were designed in the 19th century to produce obedient factory workers. They taught people to sit in rows and be talked at for 50 minutes. In real life, you seldom have to sit in rows, memorize and take tests. What you do at work usually involves little that you learned at school.
Schools are yesterday' solution to yesterday's problem.
The hunger to learn is universal. We are all built to be active, avid learners all of our lives. We have to learn constantly to make sense of the changing world we live in. All of us learned our native language by the age of 3 at home, without any formal teacher. Yet, too many people cannot read or write that language after 12 years of schooling.