The primary task of education is to develop a critical thinking and active citizenry. Education is not just a useful tool to acquire for trading at the market place.
Citizens then spend all their lives focusing on being economically productive individuals through education and the comforts of post-education life, with less to no participation in any affairs of society. They only focus on contributions that bring monetary return.Education is important for the country's economic development only as a component of a larger productive use in the shaping of an individual as a member of society.
It is said that 'He who pays the piper calls the tune'. This is no truer than in the state of our education, where private funding now controls the content of research, academic choices, who sits on university councils and which universities succeed and which ones fall behind. The rest of the institutions are dependent on student tuition to operate and given that the rich students would be in the already financially endowed institutions because they are deemed to be elite, the rest of the institutions are only left with poor students who struggle with tuition.