The only thing in your comment above I disagree with is the slight implication that education is underfunded in general.
Can't speak much about the UK but both the US and Germany (the ones I can speak about) put a shitload of money into education but manage to complete misallocate it. It isn't about the amount of pie, it's just the wrong pie.
A lot of subjects are literally self promoting nonsense without any sort of proven ROI. Haven't seen a western society with a school curriculum that would survive even the slightest bit of scrutiny.
Of course this isn't the teachers job to fix but obviously if one were to try and optimize this system, you'd start by fixing obvious flaws in allocation - as that's an even lower hanging fruit than technology. They completely failed to optimize both and I don't see any reason this would change now unless there's a collapse of the larger system.
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