 education government don t go together the long road to how our educational system has become so bad has been guided by the everencroaching part that the federal government has played in it in the last century the answer to solving the education problem is to get the government out of it and to abolish the us department of education for an interesting opinion on the issue by george will from wwwdetnewscom click on the following story link  http wwwdetnewscom article 20111003 opinion031100303081008 opinion 19  