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In essense....no person should be legally barred from learning, from reading a book, from trying to go to a school, from listening to a lecture, etc. People have a right to seek out knowledge. However the government is not required to pay for your education, for your book, for your lecture. The fact they do, and make it easy for you, is a privledge.
Philosophically whether or not a public education is a "right" is very debatable. However, for all intents and purposes, it is a right in the United States that any legal resident or citizen has access to a public education from 1st through 12th grade. The government is legally compelled to provide for that right. To make it simply a privilege, the law would have to be changed.