Much that happens in education is fear based - if you don't learn this, or have that qualification, you will not succeed in the future. And especially "you will not have a good job in the future".
This fear is necessary to keep the educational hegemony profitable. And the best part (from a profit perspective) is that this need can never be filled. Because this fear feeds into a competitive, exploitative economy - so whenever some individuals seem to get ahead of the game, it threatens the success of others, who then have to "invest" more in their own education to stay ahead of the curve.
But... fear is not conducive to learning (because it activates our survival responses - fight, flight, freeze, meltdown and negatively impacts development of our prefrontal cortex), and more crucially, it's not conducive to our mental well being.
What if, instead, we could simply pursue our curiosity? Like most children tend to do so effortlessly until they are traumatized to stop?
This is, of course, a somewhat privileged position that a family in a precarious financial situation may not be able to take, because they believe that only the education offered by the hegemony can help them escape the poverty trap, even though it has largely not succeeded in doing so for generations. But perhaps if they are introduced* to \swarm it^ by someone they trust, they might be open to participate?
* All invitations to \swarm it^ are extended on trust.