Chapotraphouse

It is bad education, evidenced by fascists actively trying to make schools worse, like it is clearly working. But you're also right that fascism is a nascent tendency within capitalism itself, and manifests primarily in the middle class and poor petty bourg, because the middle class is constantly being crushed by capitalism. As the state in its function to mitigate class antagonisms gets swept away, this tendency becomes more acute and activates the Hitler particles in more and more people.

EU social democracies have much better schools, higher education for lower cost and they still have major viable fascist parties and movements. Education is fundamentally progressive, but there are all different kinds of education, and progress is not a straight line, but more like building something brick by brick. The ruling class has lots of experience systematically stifling forms of education that risk activating genuine contemplation, self actualization, curiosity, social awareness, and class consciousness. This makes it much easier to smuggle in narratives about race, class and immigration that keep the bourg on top and the workers divided