The failure of America’s education system has been one of the greatest disasters, maybe the greatest, in the nation’s history. We handed most educational institutions over to the government, which means they would be run by politicians, who care for nothing but their own power and self-aggrandizement and control of others. Freedom is not what government wants; indeed, it is the very antithesis thereof.

America’s Founders recognized that some government is necessary to protect our rights against monsters who would try to take them from us. Thus, government, which is, by definition, the collectivization (or nationalization) of force to secure us against evil, has a purpose to play in a nation. But since the government largely controls the power, it is very dangerous to liberty. Our Founders understood that, which is why they tried to limit the power and role of government in American society.

And while our Founders were great believers in education (Thomas Jefferson: “The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate”), they did not, in our Constitution, give government a role in, much less the oversight, of the country’s education establishment. Education is simply not something that government can do well; it isn’t something that can effectively be forced upon people. People must want to learn, and while, yes, some information—true or false—can be crammed into any human brain, only a willing mind will receive true knowledge and the wisdom and virtue that come from it. Government cannot produce that kind of people; only freedom can. Basically, throughout history, governments have been good at one thing—killing people—which........

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