Education and Politics

I've always wondered why one of the great libertarian leaders of our early republic, one who did not trust government power, was so willing to give government power and authority to schools. Thomas Jefferson, I don't understand you there.

Where you so rightly distrusted government power generally, why did you trust it with such autocratic institutions as schools? Could you not guess that they, under government control, would eventually do exactly what they do to kids today: indoctrinate rather than educate?

Just my two cents on the matter. But the trouble with education is precisely that it's centralized under political authority. In the long run that's bound to harm our freedom of thought. It boggles my mind that people don't see that.