On the contrary, they are perceptive, and right.
The current socialistic education system encourages ineptitude and bloat, for the same reason those results occur in any other system that decouples the responsibility of paying for something from the decision of how much to use. Do you think that parents who actually had to directly foot the bills themselves would buy courses in "Why Western Civilization Sucks" or "101 Sexual Positions To Try Before Your Sixteenth Birthday"?
I find little argument with you here. Competition in schooling (private, church, home schooling, so on) would no doubt result in a better state of education in this country. But there is little doubt that education is a direct benefit to our country, and should be a high priority of government.