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PROTECTING HOME RULE IN AMERICAN EDUCATION

When a request first came to me to take a place on this
program, it was that my subject should be HOME RULE IN EDUCATION.
With the request I was glad to comply. When, however, a copy of
the final program came recently I found that the subject had been
changed slightly, -- that my topic was to be not merely HOME RULE IN
EDUCATION, but it was changed to a more specific wording PROTECTING
HOME RULE IN EDUCATION. Although I was glad to discuss the
general subject of home rule, I was even more glad to discuss the
more specific subject PROTECTING HOME RULE. Protection of home
rule is for me very fundamental. Home rule is a principle for
which we must stand and we must act in accordance with deep con-
victions on this vital issue.

One observes this interesting fact, --almost everyone declares
himself to be for home rule. Almost unanimously we say, "Yes,
home rule must be protected". Somehow all who have grown up in
the American tradition believe home rule to be a fundamental of
our American way of procedure. I doubt if there be any in this
room, who could or would declare opposition in any wise to the
general principle of home rule. To bring it down to our own
particular problem, we stand together in the general belief that
education is primarily a function of communities, that legally
it is a state function, administratively a community task. We
believe that what shall be taught, who shall teach it, when it
shall be taught, in what environment it shall be taught must be
decided by local and state agencies. It is interesting to me
further to observe that everyone who declares himself in favor

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