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The system was designed from the ground up to meet the needs of an industrialist society, or rather the companies that run an industrialist society.
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The companies thatrun an industrialist society never designed the system from the ground up.
If they would, you wouldn't have things like analysis of poems and a lot more classes on reading financial statements.
The little amount of desing that went into the system was made by academics, school teachers and politicians and all three groups usually aren't payed by the private sector.
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I can see that "measurable results" is a loaded phrase so I'll avoid using it at all costs. Measuring basic competency isn't difficult, people just have to be allowed to use their own intuition instead of relying on so-called scientific methods like testing. A kid that can read well and a kid that can barely read at all are both easily identifiable, as are those who are good at math, or philosophy, and so on.
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Distinguishing people who are really bad at something from people who are average isn't hard.
Distinguishing people who are good from people who are great is hard especially if the teacher isn't great himself and as they say:
He who can does, he who cannot teaches.
It's difficult to identify someone who is extremly good at philosophy if that person additionally happens to be ahead of his time.
And that's what being young and being extremly good is all about, being ahead of your time.