We don't need no education

Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall" came up in my iTunes today. I lead me to think about how rebelling against the constrictions of education, in the era that song was written, was an expression of free thought. Today in contemporary America, I feel the tables have turned. Now the people railing against education are typically conservative Christians and libertarians. Pink Floyd sings "we don't need no thought control," indicating that in school, kids are forced to think a certain way, and as a result become little automatons to serve whatever overlord reigns supreme over the education system. The anti-public education right seems imply on the other hand that we don't need no critical thinking. We have everything figured out; there is no need to analyze society, science, or superstition. The claims are based mostly on the creationism vs. big bang/evolutionary theory conflict for conservative Christians, and based on some sort of socialist career decisions by the libertarians.
I bring this up because, when I reminisce, my personal experience was that the public school system 'opened my mind.' If I was to be educated by the cultural institutions of where I grew up, for example, I would not know that condoms existed. It was a select few teachers that, while running school in the draconian manner teens despise, implanted feeling of critical thought over the decisions that were being impressed upon you. Can we blame the free thinking anti-educations movement from the past for bringing us to where we are today, where there is a contempt for the education system, even by those who don't subscribe to right wing ideology?