>then ideologically wouldn't it
>be better to give the
>child a "choice based" education
>from the get go?

i don't think you ever remove someone's ability to choose. you can punish AFTER the choice, you can attempt to control the choices (laws and such), but people have a very deep "find a way or make one" streak in them which defies all ability to control if the individual chooses to.

now the issue of what leads a particualr individual to make a particular choice (enviromnment or whatever) makes an interesting convo (many have discussed this at length includeing myself, and people deemed "experts"), but the idea of whether you have "free will" (there goes THAT term again) seems untouchable to me.