Germany jails homeschoolers

Catholic Standard Times ^ | October 2006 | Susan Brinkmann

[Sisku Hanne]

Once again, your post is not logical and contradicts itself. You are supposed to allow one-sided leftist indoctrination so the larger society can go on to contradict it and convince the children that their teachers are wrong? Yet your teachers, you previously claimed, are oh-so "professionally screened" and not biased?

I hate to tell you this, but you're NOT living in a democracy if you're so threatened by your neighbor wanting to educate his child that you have to outlaw it, and try to give some lame excuse to justify your censorship. Perhaps you should worry less about self-esteem and more about common sense! You are the frog in the kettle who has no idea how hot the water is getting, and how fast the dictators are stirring the pot. Sehr schade!

[Logophile]

The human rights court ruled: “Parents may not refuse the right to education of a child on the basis of their convictions,” adding that the right to education “by its very nature calls for regulation by the state.”

In what way does the "very nature" of education require its regulation by the state?

Are there other areas of life that similarly call for state regulation? Or to put it differently (considering that this is Europe), is there anything that does not fall under the purview of the state?