Okay, I see where there was a misunderstanding, I do not disagree with you.
There are many aspects to "education", sorry I was unspecific. I was thinking in different terms of demonstration of valuing.
In my mind, the "overvaluing" was demonstrated in how we tend to tell kids that their only choices are college or poverty. I think that leads to hopelessness for those that can't manage college, which leads to giving up and dropping out.
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people with education or intellectuals are openly mocked in both political and popular culture.
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Yet many of those intellectuals and academics feel it is a waste of their time to focus any energy on pre-college education or helping educate the public, as we have discussed previously with textbook authoring and popular science writing, specifically.
Also publishing educational materials does not count towards tenure. So even the educated do not value education, to some degree.
And yes, the cost of an education is getting further out of reach for more and more people. I don't know a solution to that either.