Is education the role of the government, the role of parents, or the role of both? Locke (2017) discussed the importance of paternal power and how this power is used to shape and mold children into respectful citizens of the state. In our modern education system, the government decides and implements curriculum and what they feel children need to know, but who are the true controllers of a child’s education? Some may argue that parents play a much bigger role in their child’s education than the state ever will. In a sense, education extends far beyond the walls of a school and begins in the…