Do parents have the priority right to choose their children’s education?
Author:
Enrique Martínez
Location:
Espíritu: ISSN 0014-0716, Year 69, Issue 159, 2020, pages 181-186
Language:
Spanish
Introduction:
The right of parents to educate their children has been discussed since ancient times. Thus, for example, Plato clearly subordinated parental education to the State, denying parents the right to choose their children’s teachers: “Parents will not be able to send their children to these teachers … because they belong less to their parents than to the city”.