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Definition
This differs from compulsory attendance, which means that parents are obliged to send their children to a certain school. Compulsory education involves both the duty imposed upon parents by law to see that their children receive instruction, and the prerogative of every child to be educate.

Purpose of compulsory education
In old times, compulsory education was to master physical skills which are necessary and can be contributed to the nation. And it instilled values of ethics and social communications abilities into teenagers's minds. Plus, it would allow immigrants to fit in the unacquainted society of a new country. Nowadays, compulsory education has been considered as rights for every citizens in many countries. It is mostly used to advance the educated quality of all the citizens, minimize the students who stop going to school because of family economic reasons, and also, balance the education differences between rural and urban areas.

The compulsory education in each country depends on what the politic system the country has and how well is the education system developed in the country. On the other hand, in the republic countries, being educated is necessary and important for every citizen, and there are strict laws about compulsory education (Camp 181).

China
China’s nine-year compulsory education was established and considered successful. The compulsory education brings huge effects of different aspects of people’s lives. The amount of students became larger and the drop-out rates of students decreased in huge percent, even in the rural area. The purpose of the establishment of compulsory education in China is about “universalization”, which balances the educated differences between the towns and villages (Ding 13). On the other hand, it efficiently improves the quality of the facilities in schools because of the safety guarantee. However, nine-year compulsory education still has problems and needs to be improved. Most of the drop-out students quit schools because of the unwillingness of studies and bad education, instead of not being able to afford the tuition. Therefore, the improvements of Chinese compulsory education are still necessary in the modern society.

Germany
Germany's compulsory education is supported by the states of Germany. It started in 1619 and improved in the 17th century. It had a huge effect in the country and among larger amount of people than the one in the United States.

United States
America is a country of liberty, so the rights to be educated cannot be forced on anybody. People have choices to choose whether they want to study or not. They think being educated is a belief. Also, since America has a comparable thorough education system, each school will be responsible for the students without much of the help of the government.

Compulsory Education for disabled
Disabled will have more time studying than normal people because of handicap, so they are required to go to special schools. The purpose of disabled to go to school is that they will be able to receive more taught education instead of knowledges that are wrongly understood by themselves. Also, someone stated that since there are parents who want their disabled kids to go to work or be spoiled at home instead of going to school, compulsory education can solve the issues from family, which the prohibition of disabled from going to school.

Criticisms
People have argued that compulsory education has shown its benefits by making certain societies more profitable. People are able to get educated and be employed in companies. However, some people disagree that the main issue it is whether students need to be forced by using the laws and whether schools need to take full responsibility to the students during the period of compulsory education. In the suggestions given by Katz (1971) to the reformers who change the school system, there is one about ending the compulsory education radically. It reflected the discussion about the mandatory level of compulsory education. So the pressure compulsory education has to face is to educate students in order to establish them in the society in future.