The only way to have a better democracy is to have better people.

Education is the entire slow, painful game.

Alternative take: education makes you a lot more efficient at exploiting people.

It is not education that is at the root of these things, but incentives. If the incentives are all wrong, so will be the outcomes. Take education as an institution. The way it is set up incentivizes cheating, and so nearly everyone tries to cheat.