That’s the problem, by the time these young people are old enough to be polled and asked whether they would pay more for an education it’s too late.
Their education started when they were 5 years old, when their parents and teachers are making their educational decisions for them ... kids can’t even decide what will benefit them later on even when they’re 18 an picking a college major!
Personally I think we need to stop teaching calculus and trigonometry in middle & high school, in favor of statistics. It’s got so many practical applications in business, finance, politics, science, tech, marketing, sales — it’s key to so many of the new kinds of jobs employers are looking to fill, across tons of different kinds of industries.
It’s pointless to teach any of that to kids who haven’t even learned the basics of logic and problem solving. However, we can’t teach them those things, because then they might reject the political propaganda we want to force feed them.
In fact they should be taught earlier, along with history and perhaps Latin (kids taught Latin seem to do better in Maths)