Conservatives rail against confiscatory rates of federal taxation funding "education" but cheer st the prospect of federally-funded firearms education in schools.
The Founders never intended for the federal govt to spend one nickel on educating children on firearms or free speech. But each side, allegedly standing in opposition, are all too happy to raid the treasury to fund their pet projects.
I disagree:
Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse the history of his own country.--Noah Webster--
I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, (A)nd 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--
There are many more indications that the Founders prescribed an education regarding their own governance.