Good schools are one of the most cherished blessings of liberty, and parents struggle very hard to earn a good education for their children by living near good schools. One of the great (if not the greatest) motivators for parents being able to provide a good education for their children. One parent has written movingly of his decision to relocate his family to a small town so that his children would have good schools. He realized that in abandoning the city he violated some of his own convictions, but he concluded that "no one is willing to sacrifice their children on the altar of their social 1989,p.30 ) Real estate agents well aware of this fact, which is they reveal (or conceal) the quality local schools as a selling point in their pitch to prospective home To deny parents the right to influence of children's education in this way is worse than denying them a basic right as citizens a free society : it is to deny them natural as parents And it is society the benefit of the parents highly motivated labor.