Education: Free and Compulsory
In his comprehensive and fact-packed scholarly essay for The Individualist, historian Murray Rothbard traced the origins of compulsory schooling. The essay has since become a classic that provides a historic perspective on the today's failing Prussian model of education.
The first compulsory state system in the modern world was established in 1559 by Duke Christopher, Elector of Wurtemburg. Attendance was compulsory, attendance records were kept and fines were levied on truants. Other German states soon followed this example
In addition to the html original from the Mises Institute there are also audiobooks, PDFs, and YouTube versions.
Quoted excerpts come from the following reference:
Title: Education: Free and Compulsory
Author: Murray n. Rothbard
Date: 1971
Backlink: Compulsory schooling
Link: https://mises.org/library/education-free-and-compulsory-1/html