What About "Education?"

The mother of all ideas used by our entrenched far-left government to convince people to support a glut of programs for our schools is "education."  If you really love your children, as the argument goes, you will support our noble efforts to "educate" them.  If you oppose all of the noble ideas, then you do not "love" your children and you should probably be executed.
    Yet if you ask most people what they really want for their children, you get an answer that is fairly simple and very do-able:
    By the time my children are 25 yars old, I want them to be:
    1. Doing a job that is meaningful, pays well, and makes a legitamate contribution to society;
    2. In a stable marriage;
    3. Thin;
    3. Willing to help others;
    4. Free of any addictive activities (including smoking);
    5. Responsible with their money;
    6. Increasing their learning by advancing their job proficiencies;
    7. Happy.
    Yet. if these goals are so widely held by a majority of people, why do so many of our children arrive at 25 years of age with almost none of these?
   The answer is both simple and very frightening.
    For the last 50 years our children have been subjected to a whole host of  social and "educational" ideas that fly in the face of our children's success:
    1.  The whole scheme of taking federal tax money from individuals and then sending a portion of it back to our local schools has given the federal government a strangle hold over what the local schools can teach their children.  This reaches into every aspect of learning including the role of parents, the denial of teaching about our cultural roots, the virtual elimination of teaching about our constitution, our founding principles, our personal responsibility to take care of ourselves.
    2. There is an ongoing attack on the institution of marriage.  Many federal and state programs that have breen created to address poverty have, in fact, promoted the abandonment by fathers of their own children by limiting benefits to mothers who are married.
    3. The focus on "social" success essentially robs children of the core goal of financial success and independence.  Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, was asked when he sold his internet business for $4 billion, "How did it make you feel to be a multi-billionaire?"  His answer: "taller and better looking."
    What are the answers to all of this?
     Jacques Barzun, a Chicago University professor, wrote a book entitled Teacher in America.  In this book he differentiates between education and training.  Education primarily takes place in the home;
the schools can only offer training.  Education embodies our children's attitudes toward learning and their attitudes toward a whole host of things like work, food, sexual roles, self esteem, etc.
    We have succumbed to the temptation of delegating to the government our responsibilities to educate our children, and they have done a terrible job of it.
    What about it, seekers?  Can we take over the education of our kids and kick the government out of the process?