All right, maybe the ends justify the means; let’s conveniently overlook the Eastern Axis’s atrocities and instead look at education for colonial subjects under Japanese Imperialism:

Primary school instruction was particularly important because it allowed “the minds of future generations of citizens of Malai [to be] trained from the start to follow the lines of Shin Chitsujo (New Order) and discard Western ideas and habits”.² Secondary and tertiary institutions were closed, although some industrial and vocational training took place beyond the primary level, and eventually a teachers’ training college and a medical faculty were allowed to conduct classes.

[…]

In July 1942 the [Imperialists] introduced school fees, charging $2 per month for the first three years, $2.50 for years four and five, and $3 for years six and seven, but many people could not afford these amounts and they were lowered in December 1942. In July 1943 the [Imperialists] introduced free education for some children, and this later became the general practice throughout the peninsula.

By June 1943 about half of the primary schools in Malaya were back in operation, and enrolments were nearly 80 per cent of the pre‐war level (233,977 compared with 294,008 before the occupation), but in 1944 the number of students attending classes fell sharply owing to a rise in the incidence of malaria and other diseases, and because children had to help their families grow food.³

[…]

In Singapore most Catholic mission schools re‐opened in April 1942 as Municipal Schools, and those teaching missionaries who had avoided detention because they came from neutral countries or nations allied with [the Empire of] Japan were reemployed as public servants working for the [Axis]. […] Enrolments were far below pre‐war levels.¹⁰

(Emphasis added. Source.)

Hmm…