I like education -- but I think government schools are a bad way to get there.
I like libraries -- but what I see of publicly-funded libraries makes me want to cut the funding.
Of course, I'm in MA, so maybe our libraries are not typical.
John Taylor Gatto suggested that folks compare the atmosphere inside a library with that found inside a public school. Night and day. The people in the library, you see, WANT to be there. They attend voluntarily.
Public school students are sullen inmates compelled by force to partake of something so worthless that the purveyors can’t even GIVE it away!