What constitutes an education is a wholly subjective opinion.
What role could government possibly play?
How can some bureaucrat know better?
My college professors would often say that you could memorize the entire Encyclopedia Britannica and you’d be worth about a thousand dollars (what it cost in those days). What they were interested in was if you understood the concepts of what they were teaching.
Where schools fall really short these days is in teaching kids how to think. Regurgitating facts to achieve a certain score on a standardized test, is no demonstration of an education. If all they have done is filled the kids heads with facts without teaching them what to do with them, they’ve wasted everybody’s time and money.
And they can’t even do that right either. Kids today know next to nothing. They can hardly read and barely calculate.
Some education.