Dependency whether covertly or overtly obtained by a state or other corporation, or consciously or unconsciously surrendered, whether by an individual or group composed thereof, is powerful political capital firmly grounded in the psychological and physiological realities of the human mind and body. The practice of politics, which is the use of this dependency, however gained, has changed little since the time of priest kings in ancient Babylon and before. This ancient practice of state craft, which later found expression in the term corporate governance sometime during the renaissance period, is devoted to harnessing wants of the human psyche and the needs of biological machine within which it resides. Populations that by fate or by design or both, are not inclined to ever grow up, have no useful memory of the past, and whose understanding of the present is hampered by distractions and by a limited vocabulary, choose feeling as their touchstone for decisions. They are unable to choose critical thinking, which is not only no longer available, the concept is an abstraction beyond comprehension.

It the mental state of an infant, a prisoner, and that of livestock.

Infants that become adults become the expression of self-sufficiency and independence, or so they should be. Prisoners once freed can also become the same. Livestock however, is another matter.

The process of domestication, genetically, and through confined programmed actions, has erased all trace or knowledge of adulthood and freedom which was known to their wild, self sufficient ancestors or any remaining root stock.

The welfare state is form of infant day care, prison, and cattle yard. As it's actions define it's purpose and mission, it has no state interest, or political interest in reducing it's own relevancy and power by allowing anyone to grow up, providing them to tools to figure it out, to free them from their confined routines, or release them from the cattle yards.

To perpetuate itself, it must manufacture dependency, and to safeguard itself, it must not only resist nature, it must scare the infant, intimidate the prisoner, and ply the cattle with electricity and hunger.

The more it causes people to feel pain, hunger, fear, envy, jealousy, hate, uncertainty, loathing, worry (i.e., the class struggle), the more the infant will hysterically demand fairness and it's mothers apron strings, the more the prisoner will agree to anything to banish the torment and eat and sleep in peace, and the more the animal will seek to obey in order to obtain the trough and avoid the cattle prod.

As an illustration of deterministic socialism (where a thing must be as predestined by the state, regardless of the nature of man) of which the welfare state is but a tentacle, we see the state interest in manufacturing the excuse that permits it to exist unopposed.

The question about education is one of intent and one of adulthood owning that intent, and not the children, not the dependent, and certainly not the state.

If the intent is, by education, to produce informed, enlightened, self-sufficient people that have no need of state to feed it, clothe it, or keep it safe and warm - a true expression of freedom as adults...then the solution is clear.

It is the owners of that Republic that must control the education full time, hiring the state as one would contractor, where the contractor follows the blueprint of the owner, and no other.

One can blame the welfare state, but if there are adults left to appreciate that, then they can certainly appreciate that they share the blame if they fail to act.