Meanwhile in America [1][2][3][4][5][6].

Roger Freeman, then advisor to presidential candidate Ronald Reagan in 1970, said "We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat" [7], leading to Reagan unwinding the free college of the UC system and this was a progenitor to the current student debt crisis.

But beyond college education, there's also an attack on education at K-12 levels. Homeschooling and a lack of sex education contribute to perpetuating abuse and trapping children (primarily girls) in this cycle.

[1]: https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/06/child-marriage-calif...

[2]: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/married-young-the...

[3]: https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jul/09/chil...

[4]: https://www.freedomunited.org/u-s-child-mariage-laws-individ...

[5]: https://www.unchainedatlast.org/united-states-child-marriage...

[6]: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interactive/child-marriag...

[7]: https://www.bestcolleges.com/news/analysis/threat-of-educate...

Something that was really grotesque was some responses to statistics around teen pregnancies. Basically, some pundits were arguing that the drastic drop of teen pregnancy due to education was a bad thing.

A very high portion of teenage pregnancies resulted from sexual abuse from an older adult.

People are out there quite literally arguing that the sexual abuse of essentially children is good for society, to enable the population pyramid scheme.

> "We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat"

That tells you everything you need to know about the Right.