An Analysis of the Right to Autonomy of the Children, of the Rights to Control of the Parents, and of the Right to Intervention of the State

Abstract

The study analyses questions regarding education, the possible aims of education, the concept of autonomy, and the relationships between autonomy and education. In connection with these questions, the study investigates the role of the state as regards education, and the presence or absence of a duty from the state as regards the promotion and the defence of autonomy. Further themes of the inquiry are the duties of the parents as regards the education of the children and the right of the parents to choose the kind of education for their children. Different interpretations of the state, of the possible ways of life, of models for citizenship, of society and of the relations between individuals and groups correspond to the kind of education which is proposed by the researchers.