The idea of education being a "right" is closely connected to democracy.
The belief is that citizens must have some level of knowledge to participate in the political process, which gave rise to public schooling.

The idea of distributed political power was supposed to avoid tyranny, but it fails at this goal since it centralizes the power to shape children's minds, concentrating even more power in the hands of the state and removing tribal checks and balances.

This system relies heavily on mechanization and is therefore wasteful by its nature, since mechanized production focuses heavily on maximizing production (which requires finding ways to maximize demand).
This dynamic also applies to the military-industrial complex.

The Islamic alternative is an educational system not directly micromanaged by the state, but rather based on awqaf. The role of the state is to ensure that the revenues of the awqaf are not directed to anyone other than the intended beneficiaries.

Education is then regulated by the ulema. This is why in most Muslim majority countries today, the department of awqaf and religious affairs are a single wazara (ministry).