John Dewey in the early 1900's designed public education into his progressive (atheist, Marxist) world view. All of America's public schools and esp. the media were controlled by progressives by the 1920's and after.
Indoctrination into Marxism and atheism has been almost accomplished because people were unaware of the underlying message in their covert efforts to undermine family and God through progressive ideas....such as homosexuality, feminism, egalitarianism, multiculturalism,tolerance.....all will destroy the family and the concept of a true God. They have been able to subvert the Christian paradigm into the atheist, socialist paradigm over the course of the constant repetition of lies as truth to the point that even good, "righteous" people can not recognize the Truth.
Exactly.
Yes, our Founding Father supported the idea of an educated population but they would be appalled at our socialistic government monstrosity of an education system that we have today.
If our Founding Fathers could have seen a modern government K-12 school, they would have included freedom from all forms of government education in the First Amendment.
I should also state that progressives did have trouble infiltrating the country schools and those with solid Christian teachers in America (not so in Europe cuz they didn’t have the strong individualism/Christian background) ....the real force of the progressive education hit around Kinsey’s time when the pedophile Kinsey’s attitudes and the twisted Freud’s were immersed in all the texts even at Catholic schools. That was in the 50’s and of course resulted in the sexual revolution in the 60’s.