About private education, I do agree about religious institutions as there's several issues that happen due to the closed off nature of such schools but public education has always sucked.
I went to a free government college and I don't regret it but at the same time, my teacher got her degree as a certificate online for six months and then thought she could teach lol. Some of the teachers are the same way and we don't learn how humans naturally learn in their natural environments so I hate all school for that reason. A lot of what we do is counter intuitive and then we blame the kids for not learning when it's our fault.
I've always been a fan of the Norway model of learning.