In this paper, a philosophical and rights theoretical perspective is applied to the story The Freedom Bird. In the story, freedom takes form as something that cannot be destroyed, and the story suggests that attempts to do so will just make freedom assume another shape. In this vein, and from a human rights perspective, freedom can be seen as one of the basic principles to the very idea of human rights. The paper will raise the questions: What is ‘freedom’ from a rights theoretical perspective? What do ‘freedom rights’ include? Based on these considerations, education will be discussed as a setting for children and young people’s freedom, particularly how their capacity to claim and exercise freedom is promoted and allowed to grow, and how education may fail to respect children and young people’s freedom rights and restrict their possibilities to grow in capacity to exercise freedom. References: Benhabib, S. (2004). The Rights of Others. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Bobbio, N. (1990). The Age of Rights. Cambridge/Malden: Polity Press. Marshall, T. H. (1949/1964). Citizenship and Social Class. Chicago: University press.