Regardless of what your opinion is on the educational merits of home schooling, the language of the California state court of appeals in cracking down on "uncredentialed" home schoolers is striking for the creepily authoritarian assumptions about the role of education and relation of school and state that seem to underly it.
"In obedience to the constitutional mandate to bring about a general diffusion of knowledge and intelligence, the Legislature, over the years, enacted a series of laws. A primary purpose of the educational system is to train school children in good citizenship, patriotism and loyalty to the state and the nation as a means of protecting the public welfare."
Thanks to Steve Greenhut
"In obedience to the constitutional mandate to bring about a general diffusion of knowledge and intelligence, the Legislature, over the years, enacted a series of laws. A primary purpose of the educational system is to train school children in good citizenship, patriotism and loyalty to the state and the nation as a means of protecting the public welfare."
Thanks to Steve Greenhut
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