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(Speaking as an American.)
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I know that you American sometimes have issues with European geography
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Berlin, the city I'm living in was the capital of Prussia.
As a result I'm a bit more familar with Prussian history and values than the average American.
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We also imported many ideas from the Prussian school of thought. You could argue we practically copied their system.
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The Prussian system just wasn't created during the industrialism but earlier.
People like Wilhelm von Humboldt who had a lot of influence on the development of the educational system in the the 19th century didn't thought that the goal of education was to make people submissive and dumb then down.
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I don't think it's the role of any institution to define who is and isn't great. (Does that contradict my earlier post?
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How can an institution measure whether it's methods produce great people when it can't measure who's great?