ABSTRACT
Over the role of government in the promotion of social welfare controversy has always raged and will always continue to rage. By locking the value, enterprise, to the means, laissez-faire, they had deliberately to reject another value, the value of social security. The irony of history waits near by when the otherwise secure contend that the genuinely insecure must not, for their own sake, be aided by government in attaining a minimum of security. Another aspect of the same lesson is revealed by an examination of national policies for education. For reasons that are in our day completely obvious school education has nearly everywhere become a function of the state, though there are a few countries where the church still retains some element of its former dominance. State legislatures and sometimes municipal governments are making a new kind of encroachment on the proper prerogatives of the educational authorities.
