The way to show government should intervene into personal lives

[OngBonga]

What is the government's role when it comes to eduaction? To educate an individual as best as possible? Or to provide the most efficient education system that gives everyone as good an education as circumstances allow?

If you have a remit to edcucate one person, then you can educate that person to a very high standard. If your remit is to educate a population, those standards will drop due a number of factors, such as budget, teacher availability and skill, demand etc.

So the government won't be very efficient at educating an individual, but the population? It's not going to be an easy job and they succeed, so yeah I guess so.

[BananaStand]

What is the government's role when it comes to eduaction? To educate an individual as best as possible? Or to provide the most efficient education system that gives everyone as good an education as circumstances allow?

Neither is even close.

The government's obligation is to offer an opportunity to gain the skills and knowledge required to be a viable member of the marketplace.

That's it....just the opportunity. And only the skills required to be viable in the marketplace.

[wufwugy]

The government's obligation is to offer an opportunity to gain the skills and knowledge required to be a viable member of the marketplace

That's when we ask ourselves whether the government actually does this more efficiently.

If it is the government's responsibility to make sure citizens get good enough education, if it is the case that the free market better provides that education than the government's system, that means it is the government's responsibility to NOT intervene.