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I have stated many times in this thread that STATES created the schools, not the Feds.

See my post #63, where I excerpted the Georgia Constitution. Check your own state's constitution.

Then from your excerpt from the US Constitution:
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution.

From paragraph #1 in your enumeration we see
The Congress shall have Power To ... provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States.

An educated public can certainly be intrinsic to the "general welfare" of the Nation. Jefferson dwells on this at length; and, his arguments make sense. It must have made sense to a lot of Congresscritters in the interum.

Schools are not a "general welfare", schools are a specific welfare. That makes states or the people the sole province. An institution such as the Department of Education is remarkably unconstitutional.

I saw your post with the Georgia Constitution, I actually applaud that sort of thing. Desperately few conservatives read the state constitutions.

"An educated public can certainly be intrinsic to the "general welfare" of the Nation."

So can food. So can healthcare. So can a basic level of pay.(All things progressives seek to achieve) But the Founders didn't give us an unlimited omnipotent government, that's what they set out to desperately prevent. So they gave us a "general government" with only a limited few items on a short leash. General governments don't really do much, contrary to popular myth.

You claim to have read the United States Constitution, I'm surprised the Constitution's limited culture eluded you. The unlimited culture of the Georgia Constitution couldn't be more obvious. Specific welfares for specific constitutions/governments that have unlimited cultures, and general welfares for the general government with its limited culture.

Then from your excerpt from the US Constitution:"

Quoting that one line out of context is bad faith. The whole enumerated powers as a bloc tells a story of what the Constitution is. They are not grants of omnipotence.