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OPTING OUT OF EDUCATION: YODER, MOZERT , AND THE AUTONOMY OF CHILDREN
Author(s) -
Reich Rob
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
educational theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1741-5446
pISSN - 0013-2004
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-5446.2002.00445.x
Subject(s) - scholarship , courtesy , politics , sociology , autonomy , political philosophy , media studies , library science , political science , law , computer science
It is the future of the student, not of the parents, that is imperiled by today’s decision. If aparent keeps his child out of school beyond the grade school, then the child will be forever barred from entry into the new and amazing world of dwersity that we have today. The child may decide that that is the preferred course, or he may rebel. It is the student’s judgment, not his parents’, that is essential if we are to give full meaning to what we have said about the Bill of Rights and of the right of students to be masters of their own destiny.’