Any country , with any form of government , elected or otherwise , is capable of falling under leadership that will cause the mandatory government curriculum to be shitty . We have seen this in the US , and we have seen this in other countries with completely different governments . Things like the Trump election , Brexit , sudden far right or far left movements , or other completely unexpected things could happen to any government . It looks like trump ' s education picks will try and change how science is taught . I would not be surprised if the UK soon started teaching kids how great massive state surveillance programs are . There could be a chance that anti immigrant parties gain power in Europe and we could see xenophobic propaganda in schools like in Nazi Germany not even that long ago really , still within living memory . I ' m sure we ' d find some objectionable stuff in China ' s curriculum . The point is , the less centralized power the government has , in education or anything else , the less susceptible our critical societal institutions are to being corrupted . Schools are , and have always been , critical places for ideas about changing the government for the better to be created and spread . If the government control all the schools , you run the risk of having to stand in front of a tank to get your point across .