Why is education for the citizens of a country considered something that a countries government should have no part in in the US?
If education really is something important for the country, would it not make more sense for the country to prioritize and fund it as opposed to leaving it to the whims of whomever feels like funding it that day?
10th Amendment says:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
It's not that the government should have no part in education; an ancap believes "a countries government" shouldn't exist at all. That's the an(archo) in ancap.
Most of the benefit of food is private: when I eat, I am no longer hungry. That means I take care of my food myself.
Most of the benefit to education is, as well, private. If I become a lawyer, I capture most of the benefit.
It's when the benefit cannot be internalized that you need government involved. A public good is one that is non-excludable and non-rivalrous. National defense and most environmental causes are examples there. Education is a private good, since it is both trivially excludable as well as (if you listen to any NEA paper about student-teacher ratios) rather rivalrous.
We... do?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_and_Drug_Administration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Ag...
It is also in a nations best interests to have an educated population.