Silly silent letters? Should spelling be simplified?

Here's (Beel-) Ze Beeb's take on the sorry process of dumbing-down education aimed at 'training', rather than educating, people, getting them to accept their dehumanised resources' status as wage slaves toiling for the ferocious entrepreneurs' private profit...

For Your Critical Thinking Skills... in case you're still entertaining lazy thoughts that this isn't really happening, and that it's merely another one of them conspiracy theories... 

Remember the Bolognese (sic!) Process and its introduction of tuition fees alongside, the American-style, 'Honey, I Shrank the University Degrees' next to a summer school before they're free to flood the post-industrial labour market?