“Train up the child in the way he should go,” Solomon wrote, “and when he is old he will not depart from it.” Ronald Reagan added that, “Our leaders must remember that education doesn’t begin with some isolated bureaucrat in Washington. It doesn’t even begin with State or local officials. Education begins in the home, where it’s a parental right and responsibility. Both our public and our private schools exist to aid our families in the instruction of our children, and it’s time some people back in Washington stopped acting as if family wishes were only getting in the way.”
Not only has government forgotten the purpose of education, it has forgotten its own purpose too! There is room enough for freedom to have competing systems of education. One and a half million home-schooled children consistently score better than government trained counterparts; notwithstanding there are some excellent public schools. Indeed, school choice tends to help both public and private school alternatives. Education is what is important, the ability to think and think differently from each other, not enforced political correctness or government monopoly of information and approaches to life, which can lead to so much slavery of the mind.