It's an interesting parallel. But children who do not go to school are usually not capable of turning into a monster and killing up to sixty people or summoning a horde of undead due to their ignorance, and there are schools in most towns and villages, while there are few places mages can train- so the children would have to be sent further away.
You seem to be reading me a little too literally.
The danger of ignorance in this Age is not quite so literal, but it certainly is significant. Making schools a lawful requirement might be a desirable solution, if it wasn't already proven to be completely unnecessary.
Many of the problems encountered in the Middle Ages was not because the solutions to them had yet to be invented, but rather because the system that might have prevented them had crumbled. A lack of infrastructure after the fall of Rome lead to increasing ignorance, in a period during which the knowledge previously gained would have been lost forever, if not for the Arabic scholars preserving it. Can you imagine where we'd be if we didn't have the works of Socrates, Plato or Aristotle to build our understanding of science upon? I doubt it.
Let me deal with the rest of you post as well.
Is it right to force a mage child to train if they don't want to leave their family or don't want to undergo training (but their family wants them to)?
It is. A child cannot be expected to make an informed decision about something like this, lacking the years of perspective.
If it is, then why is it right to force a child to undergo training but not an adult? Both are equally at risk from their powers and are equally risking those around them.
Because an adult should be expected to own up to their own idiocy. Parents are the ones who are supposed to own up to their children until the children are old enough to be considered adults themselves, by societal norms usually. Even if some parents and bleeding hearts seem to forget this.
I understand children may not be able to fully understand the dangers of not undergoing training, but is an adult not caring about the dangers that different to a child not understanding them?
An adult not caring about the dangers may or may not fall prey to them, and if they do, it's something that could and should be dealt with on an individual basis,
if and when it happens. A child who doesn't understand can, through schooling, be made to understand.
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