Let’s Talk About Giving Children the Right to Vote

Teacher Tom
Teachers on Fire Magazine
7 min readApr 9, 2020

I welcome the voices of children in public life: we need to hear them. Maybe it’s time we got serious about true universal suffrage.

Without an educated population, the grand experiment of democracy cannot flourish. This is why we educate children. It’s not, as many assume, so that they can one day join the workforce as a cog in the economy, but so that they can acquire the…

Teacher Tom
Teachers on Fire Magazine

Tom “Teacher Tom” Hobson is an early childhood educator, international speaker, education consultant, teacher of teachers, parent educator, and author.