In this day and age education is the most important thing we need. As we move into the Age of Automation there will be virtually no jobs for people without an education. Even if we move toward a guaranteed income I don't believe the uneducated will find self fulfilling uses for their time. Imo most will stew in their discontent and cause problems that society will have to deal with. People need a good education just to find self fulfilling activities to use up the increased free time automation will bring. The educated with jobs will need more than education in specific fields. They'll need education that makes them adaptable and flexible because the rapid change we're seeing means that few people in the future will hold the same job doing the same work for the 50 years of working life span.

As we move into the Age of the Internet people need to be educated to sift through the massive amounts of information to separate the wheat from the chaff or the real from the fake. Fake news and conspiracy theories have always held an attraction for many people. Before Alex Jones there was Art Bell or the John Birch Society. But the purveyors of nonsense used to be hard to find. One had to seek them out and often pay for their content. Now it's ubiquitous and free everywhere on the internet. In the desire for sustained involvement and clicks youtube and other sites direct viewers to provocative and sensationalistic content. Often fake news and conspiracy theories or sex and violence.

And yet while the need for more and better education increases we're spending less money and lowering the quality.