ABSTRACT
Three hundred years ago Anglo-Saxon teaching was done chiefly by the church. In early days English and American education was, in the main, created and sustained, inspired and controlled, by religious groups. The significance of the change from church to state can be measured only if one can measure the difference between the purposes of these two institutions. It is the state which is replacing the church. The explanation of the fact that it was the church which first created and maintained the school seems fairly clear. In an earlier Europe it was generally recognized that the churches were the guardians of our "way of life". The explanation of the fact that it was the church which first created and maintained the school seems fairly clear. The crucial, the decisive problem of our culture is that of the nature and functions, the powers and limitations, of the political state.
