> It sounds like you think the key to education is coercion. ("His teachers don't make him do anything...".) That's a grim world, too.

Of course education is coercion. Same way work is things you do for money. Education without coercion is just learning, at best.

Teachers are there because of the coercion they provide. Even in the US they coerce kids to at least sit in class, because if they didn't kids would just walk out and go learn how to properly light up a cigarette from some older kid.