The root problem is the state monopoly. Everything else is an entirely predictable symptom rooted in the incentives of such a system. The purpose of the school system is to promote the legitimacy of the government above all, not to teach people to be critical thinkers who pursue their interests and hone their unique individual talents. You can't reform a system designed by industrialists and imperialists 200 years ago to churn out loyal workers and soldiers.
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You are right. Ironically, in systems like ours, ruled by a regime that defines itself as anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist, far from reversing the indoctrinating effect of the empires, they managed to just put the machinery at their service. They just changed one form of domination for another.
Authoritarians are essentially all the same beneath the different rhetorical facades they erect.