They were a failure since their beginning - everywhere. The base idea was "equality of opportunity", which can be understood as a form of "soft equity", and the intention was to streamline education for the bulk of society in a way to create obedient factory workers and aggressive soldiers.

It worked, and it significantly contributed to World War 1, because people have been indoctrinated into serving the idea of the nation by serving the state that appears to control and oversee it. It was a major collectivist push, and it is no coincidence that this outdated nationalized education system fits perfectly into the communist scheme. You'd think they'd revolutionize the education system in any significant way after they did so much else? No - it was already a perfect fit - they just adjusted some parameters.

People were willing to sacrifice their lives for their nation, the government and its wars, and the nations that fermented that obedience abused it to the maximum. World War 1 was the display of how much control governments gained and how they managed to subjugate their populations for their own, unethical goals.

And even today the public education system is of terrible quality - it does not prepare children for life, it does not teach them valuable information, it does not help them in their careers beyond what the government and its tight ally, academia, artificially mandates as relevant. A lot of it is just self-perpetuating, ancient systems for the sake of being risen to some "intellectual" priesthood at tax payer expense. And oh wonder, that elite that lives from tax payers promotes ideas and ideologies that demand more taxation and more government control.

As of today children are indoctrinated into favoring Marxism or at least tolerate it, while rejecting National Socialism because it is not socialist as they want it to be, and because it divides people as races, and not in classes as Marxists see it. Of course they can also reject the nationalism part - which can be understood as patriotism in reasonable forms - as well. And of course they ignore the detail about how the atrocities of communism and socialism surpass that of Nazis by magnitudes - that's just an inconvenient truth that needs to be silenced.

Oh and forget any sense of ethnic in-group preference - this is forbidden for the white race. We are forced to accept all races while all others races are allowed to reject whoever they want. But we are still evil because we are not tolerant enough - in fact we have to be destroyed as a race, we have to be turned into 100% cucks with no loyalty to our own kind, while being forced to respect that of everyone else. If Marxists were consequent about their ideals, they should reject Black Lives Matter in an instant, given that it is a race based, racist movement - but it is clear now what they truly oppose - it's not nationalism, it's not fascism, it's clearly not authoritarianism, it's not racism - it's Western Civilization and the white Christian.

And the best way to take us down - as a race, as a culture, as nations - is to further the very education system that is fundamental for Marxists to brainwash children, which also originally lead to WWI in all its horrors - and of course to everything after it. Because think about it - what does Collectivism truly lead to? Does it make you love your neighbor more? No. It enables you to consider your neighbor a traitor for not serving the ruling ideology, and report them to your government. It allows you to make your own people enemies. Collectivism is the ultimate tool of power for elites - or for people who are "takers" in society.