Sorry, poor wording. What I should have said is that the overall educational system ends up letting a smaller percentage of the population into universities, partially because sorting happens as early as age 10.
I'd say that's a feature, and sadly declining. Though I do agree that the early split is questionable at best.
The enormous inflation in degree requirements just makes things harder on everyone.
Most jobs don't require college education in reality.
And there's some benefit in specializing into more practical or more theoretical aspects during secondary ed.
Providing different usable levels and styles of education to everyone is better than trying to get everyone into one shoe. Especially if there's people on the top of that education system benefiting directly from the system because they run an investment fund with an attached education institution.
