Parental Rights vs. State Rights in Education
Abstract
The right and duty of educating children belongs essentially, according to the determination of the natural law, to the parents.Parents have a strict duty to procure the physical, intellectual and moral education of their children. As between state and parents, the parents have prior rights to the child since they are responsible for its existence and not the state. Education in its more extended meaning comprises all the cares, whether corporal or spiritual, by which the child is developed, physically, intellectually, and morally. It means, therefore, development of body, food, raiment and preservation of health; it means instruction or training of the mind; it means morality or training of the will. Thus understood it is certainly a duty imposed on parents by nature, by society and by God Himself.
Subject Area
Law|Educational administration|Education
Recommended Citation
Corey, Berchmans, "Parental Rights vs. State Rights in Education" (1924). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31097104.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31097104
