"Every lover of human freedom ought to oppose with all his might the
giving of Federal aid to the schools of this country; for Federal aid in
the long run inevitably means Federal control, and Federal control
means control by a centralized and irresponsible bureaucracy, and
control by such a bureaucracy means the death of everything that might
make this country great.
Against this soul-killing collectivism in education, the Christian school, like the private school, stands as
an emphatic protest. In doing so, it is no real enemy of the public
schools. On the contrary, the only way in which a state-controlled
school can be kept even relatively healthy is through the absolutely
free possibility of competition by private schools and church schools;
if it once becomes monopolistic, it is the most effective engine of
tyranny and intellectual stagnation that has yet been devised."
Dr. J. Gresham Machen
Cathy
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