This comes under the heading of "duh". How can they not see that or know that?
Exactly.
What you think is obvious may not be so. Look at the frontpage of many local newspapers as well as nationally distributed newspapers and over a period time you will see sport stories outnumbering education stories twenty to one. the same holds with this forum with threads relating to sports and the entertainment industry vastly outnumbering, both in numbers and length, threads relating to education. National spelling bees and geography contests are the closest this nation comes to promoting the importance of education and this miserly attemption pales to tne national audience for the merely for image Oscar awards or the Super Bowl.
To me it is far less obvious than you would have us believe.