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an almost universal prevailing public consensus that the practice is in the child’s interest
The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides the political and moral support for the use of compulsion in education. Article 26 states that: 'Elementary education shall be compulsory.' [http://www.ncl.ac.uk/egwest/compulsion.html]
The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides the political and moral support for the use of compulsion in education. Article 26 states that: 'Elementary education shall be compulsory.' [http://www.ncl.ac.uk/egwest/compulsion.html]
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.)