European Perspectives of Education Rights from the ECtHR

The inclusion of a right to education among the Convention rights in 1952 was accepted by controversies although the originally proposed formula (‘Every person has a right to education’) was rejected to avoid imposing positive obligations on the State. Even nowadays to this Article there are unusually high number of reservations and declarations.1 The fi rst sentence of the Article guarantees the right of the individuals to education. The second sentence provides the right of the parents to have their children educated in conformity with their religious convictions. The second sentence is considered by the Court as an adjunct of the fundamental right to education. “The education