Address by Commissioner of Education Earl McGrath, Education and the National Defense
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OCR Page 1 of 25EDUCATION AND THE NATIONAL DEFENSE*
Two dominant systems of thought, two ways of life today
engage the attention of the peoples of all nations. One is
represented by Russian Communism; the other by the democratic
nations. These philosophies originate in two basically different
conceptions of the nature and destiny of man and on two completely
different sets of human values. Though the world situation today
is extremely complicated, it may be said that the present crisis
tems primarily from the conflict between those who accept one of
these views and those who accept the other. It is perhaps inaccurate
to call the present situation a crisis, if by that term is meant
a short period of stress and strain at the end of which there will
be a decisive and final turn of events for better or worse. Those
in a position to know most about world events doubt that the
present issues are likely to be soon resolved. They see ahead
long period of uncertainty and disorder. This situation is not
of our own making, but it is nevertheless one in which we have to
live. We must so organize our national life as to carry on the
ordinary and necessary activities of everyday living while at the
same time preparing for the possibility of a global conflict.
Such planning will require that we take a position somewhere between
* By Earl James McGrath, U.S. Commissioner of Education, Federal
Security Agency, at evening session of Annual Convention of New
York State Council of City and Village Superintendents, Saranac Inn,
New York, 8:00 p.m., October 2, 1950.
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