Many institutions are ineffective because of the type of labor available to staff them. In theory there's no reason for prisons to be hellholes of abuse and rape, but in practice they're staffed by sadistic halfwits who couldn't find other work. Similar problems with schools.
In many cases, the techniques and theory necessary to make a system functional exist but are impracticable. The gestures of learning are undertaken for the workforce but watch the practice and you'll see it is all folk knowledge or "common sense", sometimes dressed up a bit.
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With schools at least you might think private schools offer an exception or a refuge. But they are more likely to represent ossified folk knowledge than scientifically tested technique. It still might be better, but it is not optimal.
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This is one of the things that could potentially be solved with a smarter workforce, so the future might actually solve such problems in my lifetime. If we can get past the political hurdles of gene editing, there are snowballing returns on existing knowledge given new resources
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