[rayiner]

> Small government for topics we don't care about, like education.

Every federal system has a division of responsibility between the federal government and sub-national governments. And education is assigned to the sub-national governments not just in the U.S., but in other federal systems: Canada, Germany, Switzerland, etc. Switzerland, for example, doesn't even have a federal ministry of education: https://www.aboutswitzerland.eda.admin.ch/en/switzerlands-ed....

[em-bee]

the distributed responsibility for education in germany was expressly designed that way to prevent national indoctrination.

[rayiner]

Education is considered a local issue pretty much everywhere. Even Sweden, which is a unitary state the size of Virginia, has principles of decentralization that places primary responsibility for education in the municipal governments.