“The loss of state and local control of our schools could spell disaster to our society and our culture, for the present pattern of school control is a basic and determining factor in the pluralistic structure of our culture, which in turn is fundamental to our democratic institutions.” So says Dr. Sterling Mc-Murrin—who, alas, recently resigned the post of Federal Commissioner of Education. ‘‘Every effort should be made to guard against the establishment of a monolithic educational structure that would reduce our intellectual life to a single controlled pattern and destroy the genuine competition among ideas that now generally prevails.” Kirk
The Little Lake Story
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