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I think I agree with your points. The society today has become constrained that beyond work, there's no reason to do any of this (enjoy reading books, talking in multiple languages, etc.) in adulthood.
How do people know to cherish this and train the next generation if they don't do it in the first place?
Like with everything new: through trial and errors. Another essential thing our tech-ridden world tries so hard to make young people not realize: anything worth learning is hard work. Be it to ride a bike, to write and to read, to send a ship into space or to... walk.
Now, how is one to realize education is sorely lacking?
Imho, one needs to look at young generations and see how completely lost they feel and... act. My idea is that young people have not magically become dumber today than they were some 50 years ago. So, if they're as smart as they used to, what else has changed that could explain that sad situation?
Quite obviously, the world around them has changed but fundamentals have not (people want food & shelter, sex and will work or do war to get that). Much more importantly imho, the real change happened between how people were educated back then and how they're being educated today.
Why is that more important than any other change? Like I was saying earlier, education is what is supposed to help people think and be able to deal with problems, any type of problems. Give them a shitty education and they will deal with any problem in a shitty manner.