“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”

― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

In this case, the "unknown" is too technical, too complex and too time-consuming for most of us.

"Knowledge is power: hide it well"

Which is, pretty much, what the western school systems are doing. You simply don't need that may skilled and scientifically minded people if you value control more than other things, so on the large scale, it's no problem if schools churn out easily riled and scared semi-literate worker/consumer-drones, the small numbers needed to keep the upper crust in style can still be recruited off of the right side of the bell curve anyway.

And conditioned for loyalty to the system while we're at it.

And in an era where egotism, rational self-interest and personal profit is the holy trinity (to borrow a familiar image), those with what you call a deficiency have instead an advantage. After them, the deluge - is no problem to their way of feeling.