Don't you think that the educational policy must be a single policy? You are absolutely right about the personal knowledge growing. So what a way to gain the object of this? If it's Democratic Socialism, as the author mentioned, the government have to fund every sector of the education system. For example, digital education is the youngest sector. Platforms and services, as Edubirdie (more info here), can be funded by in-depended investors and communities. Why they should do this? This is the great part of world community building by the way of p people's enlightenment, as you said. I can describe possibilities of online course platform coursera.org (here) if you like to know.
Sorry, ^^^ that's for you.