Issues

Education

Children are sovereign beings.

The short version. Our full stance on this issue is still being written. Until then, this is what the Law of the Earth and the Blueprint already say about it.

The Law of the Earth starts from a simple fact: no person owns any other person, and parents do not own their children. Children are individual, sovereign beings, with all the same human rights as adults, including freedom of expression and freedom of mind. They have the right to be raised by anyone they choose who agrees to raise them, and the economic responsibility for raising a child belongs to the whole village.

In the village, children have a place of their own, the Kids' Village, where every child can come and go freely, looked after by carers the village elects. Education there is exploratory play: whatever the children are curious about, the carers help them explore it.

What the Earth Party most wants every person to learn is how to reason: how a claim is made, tested, and either confirmed or overturned. Rationality isn't a matter of education or intelligence; a farmer who never read philosophy can reason more honestly than a professor. And no one may teach that an office, a uniform, or a title exempts anyone from the Law. (Title 4.)