I think the case can be made more easily for government involvement in education than in almost any other area of life. Purely because in a certain small % of c

I think the case can be made more easily for government involvement in education than in almost any other area of life. Purely because in a certain small % of cases, parents simply won't take any steps to see their children educated. That isn't a choice the child is making. Whether that means that the government should also run the schools themselves is of course a separate question. Some of the world's best school systems are highly decentralised and some are highly centralised.