BTW, Germany is also still pretty big on apprenticeships and stuff... Sweden, OTOH, has gone all-out on vocational schools -- only, in the name of Holy Equality At Least In Names, they're known as the practical programs of Senior High...
But those countries, including France, don't have all that much of a different "economic system"; it's just the degree of "bastardisation" that is a little higher than in yours... And it's debatable (Well, *I*'ll gladly debate you on it, anyway! :-) which degree is the "best"; whether your claim that yours is the "best" compromise holds up.
But those are just differences in degree, at least for the most part.
Oh, BTW, there was an LRPD that called for you: "At the tone, please leave a message. *beep*" :-)