:::I would think that some classical liberals support public education and some don't. I'm not sure, but I don't think it's a defining aspect of classical liberalism. John Stuart Mill seems to be opposed to it: "A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another: and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, and aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by natural tendency to one over the body."