OK, So It Hasn't Exactly Worked Out That Way

Perhaps you’ve noticed that utopians tend to have great faith in the salvific power of government. Horace Mann, generally regarded as the father of America’s current government school system, once prophesied: “Let the Common School ... be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths of the crimes in the penal code would become obsolete; the long catalogue of human ills would be abridged.”

Or not. Heck, today we’d be satisfied if the crimes simply weren’t committed at the school itself.