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The U.S. did not have government schools when the Fourth
(and First) Amendment was written. If the authors of the
Constitution had foreseen the government's education
monstrosity then the Fourth Amendment would have included
government schools, and the First Amendment would have
banned Congress from the establishment of religion and
education.

The Constitution should be amended to include "education"
next to "religion."

I believe that the separation of school and state is at least as important as the separation of church and state. Education is too important to be left to government.

The purpose of government schools is not to educate, it is to indoctrinate. What is done in the "best" government schools is sad and wasteful. What is done in the worst schools is scary and dangerous. A ticking time bomb. A breeding ground for drones. Ignorant, malcontented drones who will become hostile and aggressive when they dropout and find that they are unequipped to live life as anything other than a drone.

"The tax which will be paid for [the] purpose [of education] is
not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings,
priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the
people in ignorance." --Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe, 1786.

"No other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of
freedom and happiness... Preach a crusade against ignorance;
establish and improve the law for educating the common people.
Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us
against the evils [of misgovernment]." --Thomas Jefferson to
George Wythe, 1786.

"I know no safe depositary of the ultimate powers of the society
but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened
enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the
remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion
by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of
constitutional power." --Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis,
1820.

"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the
people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe
depositories. And to render even them safe, their minds must be
improved to a certain degree." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on
Virginia, 1782.

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