A Modest Proposal on Education

We take for granted the logic of the separation of church and state.  And for good reason.  We see the problems caused when the state and church are comingled as is the case in many Islamic countries. 

Why not a separation of state and education?

Why should "education" be the purview of the Federal government? 

Bitter debates such as those over whether our schools should teach creationism or Darwinian evolution (or both) wouldn't be an issue if the government wasn't in the business of managing public school education curriculums. 

Again, I would like to recommend the Book State and Education>

Education and the State

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Education and the State first appeared in 1965 and was immediately hailed as one of the century's most important works on education. In the thirty years that have followed, the questions this book raised concerning state-run education have grown immeasurably in urgency and intensity. Education and the State re-examines the role of government in education and challenges the fundamental statist assumption that the state is best able to provide an education for the general population.

West explores the views on education of the nineteenth-century British reformers and classical economists who argued for state education. He demonstrates that by the Foster Act of 1870 the state system of education was superimposed upon successful private efforts, thereby suppressing an emerging and increasingly robust structure of private, voluntary, and competitive education funded by families, churches, and philanthropies.