Public education –> Freedom?

Perhaps you have heard that freedom for learners “destroys the public school system” and that “public education is necessary for a democracy.” But democratic republican government developed first in countries without government-operated schools; the founders of the United States learned without a public school system. By contrast, the first countries to have compulsory school attendance laws were all militaristic dictatorships, including the countries that later formed Hitler’s Third Reich, a fact well documented in books on school and state relations throughout history.

From Learn in Freedom.