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Originally Posted by py3ak To mandate education you would have to define it. And that seems to me the heart of the problem. If the State is to make education compulsory they have to define it, they have to say what is to be taught, or what subject matters full under the category of education. I think that only those who accept the Establishment principle can consistently argue that the government should require education, because the Establishment principle gives you some basis for defining education. But in a pluralistic society, what is education? Learning the traditions of the rabbis? Learning Simpsons' episodes by heart? Learning survival skills --and is that hunting or website design? | You make an excellent point.
As per WCF 1:8, as I quoted above, didn't the Divines, to a certain extent define education? The ability to read and write in the vulgar tongue? Could the magistrate mandate education by parents if in no other area than the ability of literacy so that children could eventually read their own Bibles? | The divines say nothing about the magistrate teaching people to read anything. They say THE PEOPLE have a right to read the Scripture, and therefore they are to learn to read, and that the Scriptures are therefore to be translated. The system of education is not addressed.
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