Why government education fails

Government education cannot succeed because it is founded on incorrect principles. Many good people put in good efforts and attempt to keep it afloat. I consider this a waste of effort. There are reasons that government was separated from ties to religion influence in the past. They apply to education as well. more info at Separation of School and State.

I want to share some quotes from Bastiat. If we really educated young people in school then I would have heard of Frederic Bastiat before I was 25. Maybe that betrayal is one of the reasons I despise government schools. The following are some quotes from Bastiat. Buy the book or you can read more here

Bastiat makes the argument that the law can rightfully only be used be used for one purpose: To fight injustice. Whenever it is used for something else it is corrupted and will fail. His argument extends beyond education, of course.

Can the law -- which necessarily requires the use of force -- rationally be used for anything except protecting the rights of everyone? I defy anyone to extend it beyond this purpose without perverting it and, consequently, turning might against right. This is the most fatal and most illogical social perversion that can possibly be imagined. It must be admitted that the true solution -- so long searched for in the area of social relationships -- is contained in these simple words: Law is organized justice.
Now this must be said: When justice is organized by law -- that is, by force -- this excludes the idea of using law (force) to organize any human activity whatever, whether it be labor, charity, agriculture, commerce, industry, education, art, or religion.
The organizing by law of any one of these would inevitably destroy the essential
organization -- justice. For truly, how can we imagine force being used against the liberty of citizens without it also being used against justice, and thus acting against its proper purpose?

Here I encounter the most popular fallacy of our times. (1850's - why haven't we learned it yet?) It is not considered sufficient that the law should be just; it must be philanthropic. Nor is it sufficient that the law should guarantee to every citizen the free and inoffensive use of his faculties for physical, intellectual, and moral self-improvement. Instead, it is demanded that the law should directly extend welfare, education, and morality throughout the nation.
This is the seductive lure of socialism. And I repeat again: These two uses of the law are in direct contradiction to each other. We must choose between them. A citizen cannot at the same time be free and not free.

Since the law organizes justice, the socialists ask why the law should not also organize labor, education, and religion.
Why should not law be used for these purposes? Because it could not organize labor, education, and religion without destroying justice. We must remember that law is force, and that, consequently, the proper functions of the law cannot lawfully extend beyond the proper functions of force.

Why can't government education work? Because it perverts justice.