>>59726
The issue on the right is that the observed success cases were like Japan and China, in which development through exploiting large demographics for industrial work resulted in education and wealth distribution.
But that model doesn't work for every situation, and there is no model in which education came first and worked necessarily.
More often than not, you just get brain drain.
That could be addressed, a country can turn "capacitated workers" in an export good if they can financially sustain that model via taxation of the diaspora, etc...