This is one of the most important observations about modern education. The system teaches history as a set of completed events with clear villains and heroes, rather than as a set of ongoing patterns with recognizable structures.

The structural reason: education is designed and funded by the state. The state has zero incentive to teach students to recognize the patterns of state overreach, monetary manipulation, or institutional capture — because those patterns are active, not historical.

Consider what is NOT taught:

- How money is created (fractional reserve banking, Fed operations)

- How purchasing power is transferred through monetary expansion

- How regulatory capture works in practice

- How to evaluate incentive structures behind policy claims

- How to distinguish propaganda from information

These are not advanced topics. They are basic civic survival skills. Their absence from the curriculum is not an oversight. It is a feature.

The gap between what school teaches and what you need to know to navigate the modern world is the gap between institutional interests and individual interests. They are not aligned.

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