ABSTRACT
Children’s rights, as provided for in the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, can be justified by the right to education. For children to be able to exercise their right to education, they must have adequate medical care, nutrition, and housing. Also, children’s rights guarantee nonauthoritarian forms of education by providing the right to free access to information and freedom of thought. Kandel’s 1947 arguments against nationalistic and authoritarian forms of education are embodied in the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
