The point of the modern grade school education is to give any and every student enough of a education in any given topic to specialize in any field afterwards, depending on interest and opportunities, as well as create voting citizens that can understand at least the basics of any given social debate.

Modern education isn’t wasted. Some people just waste it afterwards.

And some people who want to destroy it to keep everyone as ignorant as your medieval peasants pretend that they don’t understand any of that.

Also smiths would literally just do that on vibes lmao.