Human beings all have certain things at birth, like the need for food, warmth and shelter; and commonly with these needs exist rights, because human beings are all born into the company of other human beings, each of whom has the potential to interfere, both as an individual and as a part of a State corporate, if these rights are not vindicated, with the peaceful exercise of other people's full capacity for self-determination. - Debra James

"The objective of getting all school-aged children to school and keeping them there until they attain the minimum defined in compulsory education is routinely used in the sector of education, but this objective does not necessarily conform to human rights requirements. In a country where all school aged children are in school, free of charge, for the full duration of compulsory education, the right to education may be denied or violated. The core human rights standards for education include respect of freedom. The respect of parent's freedom to educate their children according to their vision of what education should be has been part of international human rights standards since their very emergence."
-Statement by the Special Rapporteur to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights 8th April 1999 re Family H v The United Kingdom 1984 37 DR 105 at 108