Think of Thomas Jefferson's view of the educated yoeman farmer. An informed citizenry is basic to a proper functioning democracy.
Universal education is essential to the continuing vitality of the country.
It's also essential to individual prosperity in a complex society. The state can impose it to insure its own continuing vitality, and it can require it of parents because it comes at a time when the person who receives it is unable yet to make the wisest long term choices for himself. An informed citizenry is basic to a proper functioning democracy. Universal education is essential to the continuing vitality of the country. It's also essential to individual prosperity in a complex society.