Schools would serve as "instruments of managed evolution, establishing conditions for selective breeding before the masses take things into their own hands" (now I quoted that from a published essay by Edward Thorndike at Columbia Teacher's college in 1911).
Ideas have consequences.
Today we're getting around that by importing uneducated illegal aliens steeped in socialism.
They can't educate capitalism and individualism out of us fast enough so they're allowing in enough numbers of socialists to overwhelm us.