The Law and Education
You say: "There are persons who lack education," and you turn to
the law. But the law is not, in itself, a torch of learning which
shines its light abroad. The law extends over a society where some
persons have knowledge and others do not; where some citizens need to
learn, and others can teach. In this matter of education, the law has
only two alternatives: It can permit this transaction of teaching -
and - learning to operate freely and without the use of force, or it
can force human wills in this matter by taking from some of them
enough to pay the teachers who are appointed by government to instruct
others, without charge. But in this second case, the law commits legal
plunder by violating liberty and property.