Mandatory education has not been around forever. In the Middle Ages, Universities and Cathedral Schools taught those who came of their own will. Compulsory education arrived in the 16th century because of the Protestants. Demanding mandatory education first, Martin Luther pushed for this practice in his Letter to the German Nobility. In the late 1550s, forced education rose. Luther did not desire education to expand the bounds of the mind, but to effectively enforce the ideas of Lutheranism. Similarly, but on a much more international scale, John Calvin enthusiastically backed education. Because of him, schools began in France, Switzerland, and Scotland (and the US for Puritans), for much the same reason. Prussia’s Frederic William I and Frederic the Great instituted education to force public compliance. Even Napoleon followed suit. All of the European countries and America lawfully dictated mandatory education by the late 1800s. The government does not care about the well being of your mind, but only wants its citizens to obey every word it says.