Sure, I simplified a lot. The current western world order is still much more fair to the common folk than feudalism.
The education aspect was not as much about how much more educated the aristocracy was rather that the unwashed masses rose to their level, and it was not anymore sufficient to say that god has decreed duke X a distinguished gentleman and commoner Y a filthy peasant.
It is not easy to rise social ladders, but it's way easier with our figment of a fair society, rather than if we believed social status was a fixed quantity given by the creator of the universe.
The pithy armchair psychologist in me would claim modern society is much more facilitating towards a growth mindset than a feodal one.
The education aspect was not as much about how much more educated the aristocracy was rather that the unwashed masses rose to their level, and it was not anymore sufficient to say that god has decreed duke X a distinguished gentleman and commoner Y a filthy peasant.
It is not easy to rise social ladders, but it's way easier with our figment of a fair society, rather than if we believed social status was a fixed quantity given by the creator of the universe.
The pithy armchair psychologist in me would claim modern society is much more facilitating towards a growth mindset than a feodal one.