ABSTRACT
The economy had to be able to afford educational development. Geographical dictates, historical traditions and other factors effect the flavour and quality of each nation-state, and this argument is not a moral one: it is not suggested that one administrative methodology is preferable to another. To take the United Kingdom as an instance once more, the 'nationalisation' of social provision is very much a fact of life. Local agencies deliver the goods, as it were, on a local government basis, but they are largely subservient to the parent ministries and departments of Whitehall. It is, nonetheless, the spectre of Prussianic old age pensions that should haunt the liberal mind. They remind us of the universal application of social expediency. They remind us that all nation-states, capitalist or communist, require a centrally-supervised legal and police system, a centrally-overseen education system, a centrally-based welfare system and a centrally-controlled public health system.
