You made a clear, unambiguous statement. In reality, the healthcare, education, and transport systems of many European countries are fully or partially publicly controlled, and rank highly for many indicators. This seems to directly contradict your statement.
And yeah, you can still lay on your laurels of 5-10 European countries that actually do still provide "ok" education for free, but it's deteriorating so rapidly, that it'll be worse than what we had in Eastern Europe in the 80ies and 90ies in a few years.
Edit: And BTW, the same counts for the other pillars of "socialism" - healthcare, public transportation etc. Show me the countries where government services have obsoleted private healthcare, private cars etc. And no, don't show me countries where they have forbidden them (like Denmark basically forbids private cars) and you'll see that indeed, there is no place on Earth where socialism works.
Even the exceptions are degrading rapidly, as I live in one of them.