>>17920982
There's no contradiction.
He wanted his country to have only a small number of intellectuals of proven loyalty. Everyone else was supposed to be a farmer, a worker or a soldier, and highly educated people aren't particularly good at any of these jobs, at the very least not in the absence of advanced technology.
It's the exact same reason why in Biden's America libtards with a social science degree could get a fake job at a university or in DC, but conservatives with the exact same background couldn't.
The system can only absorb so many intellectuals, and in some countries you get straight up executed instead of merely marginalised for being able to think without having at the same time loyalty for the right individuals