Incidentally...
I could make a case that "19th century" education was more effective than today's in many ways. I do know that we built the greatest technological civilization on the planet and put men on the moon spending about a quarter of the dollars per student we spend now. And without a Federal Department of Education, Head Start, or any of the other liberal pixie dust imposed on our kids over the past forty years.
Constant dollars, of course.
And you? Bigger government, defense cuts, higher taxes. Wow, I've never heard THOSE ideas before.