I like the quote. I have read in other groups that education is to blame for quite a few of our problems in the US and elsewhere because they feel it has a particular political slant. This is concerning because, like travel, education opens the mind and exposes one to so much to the point that the mind wants more. When barriers exist (self imposed or economically imposed) to either, then that's when the system starts to rot from the inside and works against the best interest of everyone.
I only know the Ode To Joy in the choral symphony, obviously I missed some really good things. When there are so many great writers from the past, why was I made to spend so much of my education in R. E. and other dumbed down subjects ? Bad schooling is not just about anti-education and the teaching of false things, but also, very much, about a vast bulk of pseudo-education, the wasting of time and life on meaningless pap, so that none remains for real education; which is perhaps the main reason his wish can never come true. I have said it before, but it is worth repeating. State led education is about teaching people enough to be useful, but not enough to give them understanding, because that could make a challenge to the political establishment.