By centralized administration all these good qualities become atrophied. and even if the central government remains honest It eventually becomes fixed and wooden and therefore inefficient. If any one doubts that the scope of the Department of Education under the CurtisReed bill would be tremendous and would touch the community at every point he has only to read section 8 of the bill. which is as follows: Sin. 8. (a) The department of education shall collect such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several States and in foreign countries. In order to aid the people of the several States in establishing and maintaining more efficient schools and school systems. in devising better methods of organization. administration. and financing of education. in developing better types of school buildings and in providing for their use. in improving methods of teaching. and In developing more adequate curricula and courses of study. research shall be undertaken In (1) rural education. (2) elementary education. (3) secondary education. (4) higher education. (5) professional education . (6) physical education. including health education and recreation . (7) special education for the mentally and physically handicapped. (8) the training of teachers. (9) immigrant education . (10) adult education . and (11) such other fields as In the judgment of the secretary of education may require attention and study. The reasons for the CurtisReed bill on the side of Americanization are also fallacious and are subject to precisely the same objections stated above. Real Americanization can not be taught in books. and certainly can not be taught from any central authority. Each comimunity must assimilate and Americauize its own inhabitants. One primary essential of any true Americanization is the fostering in every individual. along with a sense of independence. of a feeling of personal interest in and responsibility for his own environment and his own Government. Most of the presentday immigrants come from countries where they look upon the government as a power which imposes its will from without. And they must learn from experience gained in their own communities that. under our system. government is the will of the people expressed in orderly processes of the law. The CurtisReed bill and other bills like it will hinder this conception of Americanization and hinder any true Americaization of our population.
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Immigrants look upon the government as a power which imposes its will from without.