If Gatto is correct, and he's not the only one to have come to this conclusion, the problem is rather that institutionalized schooling, admirable tho its aims and many of its proponents may be (equitable education for everyone) is a system that requires a great deal of centralized control over many areas of a society's activities, and as such lends itself to being invisibly hijacked by the "insiders", those who thirst for ever increasing power over ever increasing numbers of people, and who can spot an opportunity to do so across continents and several years (even decades) ahead of time.