Freedom of education

Freedom of education, or educational freedom, or educational liberty, is the right for parents to have their children educated in accordance with their religious and other views, allowing groups to be able to educate children and other age groups without being impeded by the state.

Quotes

• In 2010, a Bolivian law granted to the state a monopoly on the formation of teachers. As a consequence, private institutions were gradually closed, including the Catholic Sedes Sapientiae and a parallel Adventist college.
  The question at issue is whether states are entitled to create monopolies in certain fields of higher education that exclude private academic institutions, including those inspired by specific religious values.
  • Massimo Introvigne, "Why the Catholic Church Denounced Bolivia to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights", Bitter Winter (April 10, 2024)
  • Curator's Note: Any private academic institutions of any ethnoreligious background that wish to continue operating will have to do so through personal and informal connections.

• Our children are starving for people who can provide them with practical skills that will allow them to build a life for themselves. There are many adults who have those skills and would love the opportunity to prepare [children] for a jobs-based economy, if only they were allowed. There are welders, machinists, lawyers, artists, graphic designers, writers, accountants and more out there, all with skills our children need.
  …Why shouldn’t any principal at a public school have the option to hire someone like me with significant real-world experience?
  • Shannon Whitworth, "Want To Improve Public School Outcomes? End Teacher Licensing", The Federalist (July 6, 2023)

See also

• Freedom of assembly
• Freedom of the press
• Freedom of religion
• Freedom of thought
• Freedom of speech

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Freedom of education on Wikipedia
• Media related to Freedom of education on Wikimedia Commons