Well, democrats do have a point.
If everybody are deprived of education, they will all be equally dumb and ignorant.
Next step: extract the intelligence part of the human brain as soon as a child is born, and nobody will ever be smarter than anybody else.
Equality is going to make humans as smart as worms.
If everyone was deprived of education I believe that would make a wider gap between the truly bright and ambitious and the slackers.
The bright and ambitious would be able to home school themselves with libraries, the internet and finding some mentors.
The less bright and more lazy would become totally stupid and the brightest would achieve their goals. Most members of congress would likely not self-educate and thus the smarter more independent people would be in charge, like Jefferson and Lincoln.
This is simply to continue the class divide between the “elites” and average citizens. Elites and smart parents send their children to private schools or home school while average children are dumbed down to serve the elites.