Second, we need to recognise that if a person is given a broad based and proper education, they will have a much stronger capacity to adapt to changes in their industry and the world at large.
Narrow, specialised training produces graduates who have a narrow vision (like looking down a pipe and only seeing what is directly in front of them).  
Broader based training produces graduates who can see a much wider field of vision. They can see the changes coming up behind them and react to those changes before they get left behind.
Training is really something we should be reserving for Dogs.
People need education that will give them a capacity to adapt, understand the world around them, conceive new ideas, solve problems, connect and communicate with colleagues etc.

Third, we need diversity in education.  The idea of a national education is a misnoma. It is easier to manage, but it produces less diversity in the graduates.
As a parks director in the 1970’s, I discovered that if I had different  people with different backgrounds in a work team, I would get lots of different ideas thrown up when confronted with a problem (eg. from 5 different colleges, some studying overseas, some from interstate, some from Victoria, some from TAFE, some from university). If they all came from the same course at the same college though; the range of ideas would be markedly less