"Compulsory education is the great paradox of the modern world."
When the Englishman Chesterton wrote the following text, he was living a hundred years before our time.

"It is the fact that when the world decided that people should not be forced to their religion, they decided at the same time that they should be forced to their education."

We should then ponder who was corrupt, if Socrates, or society.

Society cannot be corrupt since society consists of individuals. If an individual lets himself being convinced that religion is a corrupt and coercive system, I'd say that this is the moment he himself risks to become corrupt. If you have an already ideal order and you state that this order isn't ideal since it punishes or disciplines individuals and you proclaim this as "unfair" you have to prove what then is more fair. If what you say is that "it is more fair to let the the individual decide", you made a full circle to what already was said to be fair: that parents are the ones who can tell about their children. That a wife can tell about her husband. All individuals came into being through the unification between two people: man and woman - that is as individual as it can get. They can err though, that's right. Then the question is: towards what order can they turn to? But if the order meanwhile consists of its exceptions, then you end up with disorder.

I can highly recommend reading Chesterton. If you are interested, I give you the link to his many written books. They are there in one huge pdf-file.