A people well educated in math, accounting, thinking and understanding logical thought are a danger to the government. A populace that learns early to follow directions from a liberal educational system, is trained from the age of five or six in beliefs that are false and told they have no power or authority in their lives can be led easily.
Consider then the differences of education between the powerful and the common. Better yet try to find the number of Ivey League graduates in the political sysytem, not the elected but the ones that run the departments and you may find why the US department of Education demands the peoples education be filled with trash while the private education sysyems that fill the government agencies have been trained in the old way. Thinking, government, economics and control of the masses.
The most dangerous person in any country is the one who does not agree to the governments ideal of government.

An educated consumer is your worst enemy