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if we compel people to do something, then we need to provide good reason for that compulsion
The practice of compulsory schooling is animated and sustained by an almost universal prevailing public consensus that the practice is in the child’s interest. (Kevin Williams, In Defence of Compulsory Education, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Vol 24, No.2, 1990.)
The practice of compulsory schooling is animated and sustained by an almost universal prevailing public consensus that the practice is in the child’s interest. (Kevin Williams, In Defence of Compulsory Education, Journal of Philosophy of Education, Vol 24, No.2, 1990.)
... in Europe and America at least, children are compelled to go to school and when they get there they are compelled to do some things rather than others. … if we compel people to do something, then we need to provide good reason for that compulsion.