Luther advocated school education not only for the benefit of the church, but also for the benefit of the country. At the same time, Luther also advocated that the government should give necessary punishment to parents who refused to undertake this obligation, and this kind of education "is not to take away their parents' children, but to be educated for the benefit of themselves and the public." "Luther's thought that the state is responsible for education and education serves the country provides a foundation for the German state to seize the right to education from the church.

Due to Luther's comprehensive and systematic exposition of compulsory education thought, coupled with the religious reform movement and his great influence, his thoughts have been widely spread in many countries in Europe and America, and he has become the earliest theoretical pioneer of modern western national education movement and universal compulsory education movement. Luther's thought of compulsory education led the development of primary education in German Protestant states from 16 to 18 century. It is in this reform that the earliest and truly modern primary education came into being.