Education is a good thing; it's a blessing that Mankind can exercise his agency in a such a manner, however it should be reserved for nobility. Teaching stupid people to read will only give them the "revelation" that they can and should break free from their chains. This overloads the formal institutions that seek to serve and/or regulate the masses, oftentimes to the point that the institutions bring themselves to destruction. This can be seen with industry, government, and marriage itself. It has already lead to the end of the institution of slavery for most of The Western World.
Denying the next generation of mass literacy is typically seen as a "Human Rights" violation. Educational institutions are used to indoctrinate the masses to oppose their masters, while they unknowingly bow down to the orders of the lesser elite. In Kindergarden we learn to associate in the most egalitarian fashion, with no semblance of privilege; by high school we've rejected the lesser divine (patriarchy and our national identity), but once we head into the university we learn to reject the higher divine. We become the most individualistic of thinkers.
Tradition and Progress aren't antithetical. Think of them as forces like the Ying and Yang, one balances out the other. There are various directions that can and do work for a better political narrative, one must simply erase the false belief that they're better off dead than enslaved; Such a notion is only fitting for a civilization under a suicidal narrative. Institutional suicide will only mean systematic atomization in the long run, and extinction/absorption in another.
edit 9/29/13: I corrected a few grammatical kinks.
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