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And where in the Constitution does it say that education is a Federal concern?

People who mindlessly chant this particular mantra simply do not know their American history. Public education was extremely important to all the founders. During the Constitutional Convention, there was a proposal to created a national university. This was defeated not because the founders were against public education, but because they wanted to leave the matter to the states.

It's no accident that every state in the union has a system of public colleges and universities. The Founding Fathers led by example. Thomas Jefferson started the University of Virginia. Other framers of the Constitution helped found the public university systems in their states. People interested in knowing the truth about the founders' attitude toward public education should read: "Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania," written in 1749 by one of the greatest early Americans, Benjamin Franklin. He founded the University of Pennsylvania. Click this link to read it for yourselves.

During the Constitutional Convention, there was a proposal to created a national university. This was defeated not because the founders were against public education, but because they wanted to leave the matter to the states.

Did you intend to make his point, or was that a boo-boo?

"And where in the Constitution does it say that education is a Federal concern?"

This was defeated not because the founders were against public education, but because they wanted to leave the matter to the states.

You answered your own question, I guess those people weren't mindless after all.

Um, Wolf? You make your own counterpoint: And where in the Constitution does it say that education is a Federal concern?

To which you reply: This was defeated not because the founders were against public education, but because they wanted to leave the matter to the states.

That's pretty much it. Education was to be a purview of cities and states not the Federal government.