> Should government have any say in whether its citizenry gets educated? Is there a public interest in it?
That's a very dangerous road.
Governments are not some benevolent creature which always acts in the best interests of the People. As a practical matter, governments are usually incompetent and corrupt (usually in that order), and try to get the masses to further the interests of the politicians, the bureaucrats and the donor class.
I want an educated populace. For that reason, I want government as far away from it as possible.
Strangely, almost all other advanced economies have been able to provide affordable education for their citizenry without it devolving into Nineteen Eighty Four. I wonder what makes the US government so uniquely malevolent.
That's a very dangerous road.
Governments are not some benevolent creature which always acts in the best interests of the People. As a practical matter, governments are usually incompetent and corrupt (usually in that order), and try to get the masses to further the interests of the politicians, the bureaucrats and the donor class.
I want an educated populace. For that reason, I want government as far away from it as possible.