In fact governments do . And therefore it is always the task of the Christian and the church to recall this principality to its vocation in Christ, through whom and for whom it was made. Boards of education are mandated to educate, since ignorance should not thrive. I myself have profited immensely from the educational resources of our society. At the same time, boards of education do a great deal besides fulfil their mandate to educate.
Propaganda is falsehood disseminated for the purpose of achieving a social end.
We can never inspect too closely everything that our children bring home from school. Let us not forget that in Nazi Germany the social group which had the highest proportion of Nazi party-members in its ranks consisted of schoolteachers. The health care system is mandated to keep people healthy. A cardiologist brought my mother back from the edge of death, and the hospital harboured her for 75 consecutive days. For this I was billed no more than my income tax.