Address by Commissioner of Education Earl McGrath, Learning the "Three R's" of Citizenship
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OCR Page 1 of 14LEARNING THE "THREE R's" OF CITIZENSHIP*
Tonight I should like to talk with you for a bit about the anatomy
of citisenship. Rather than attempt a detailed, pedantic analysis of the
subject, studded with those footnotes without which we educators venture
forth at our peril, I thought we might just reflect briefly on some of
the fundamentals--the bones and blood and tissue which we, as citisens,
ought to know about in order to function effectively.
During the past year, my first as Commissioner of Education, I
have had an opportunity to visit with people in almost every section of
the country. I've talked with individuals from all walks of life about
America's schools and the important educational questions which are of
such deep concern to overyone. In these many conversations, I have noted
with much gratification the steadily increasing interest in citisenship
education. Farmers, laborers, professional people, businessmen--it makes
little difference what groups one cites: the same general theme keeps
recurring. More and more, we seem to be turning to the question of how
our Nation can best train a citisenry with the poise, wisdom and maturity
needed for the strenuous years ahead. Throughout the land, organisations
such as this Congress of Parents and Teachers are studying, with spirit
and dedication, the full meaning of citisenship in a democratic society.
The word "citisen" is fast coming to have a newer, broader connotation
and, in the face of pressure from totalitarian states, we are suddenly
brought to realize that "there' no such thing as a part-time citisen.
CAddress by Earl James MoGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education, Federal
Security Agency, Washington, D. C., before annual dinner meeting of D. C.
Congress of Parents and Teachers, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D. C.
May 11, 1950.
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