Address By Commissioner Of Education Earl McGrath, Public Education's Responsibility To Young Children
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OCR Page 1 of 17PUBLIC EDUCATION'S RESPONSIBILITY TO YOUNG CHILDREN*
The perspective in which we, as citizens and educators, should
examine public education's responsibility to young children has been
dramatically drawn by the noted cultural anthropologist Dr. Margaret
Mead. In addressing the Mid-Century White House Conference on
Children and Youth last December, Dr. Mead said:
"American children are growing up within the
most rapidly changing culture of which we have any
record in the world, within a culture where for
several generations, each generation's experience has
differed sharply from the last. Mothers cannot look
back to the experience of their mothers, nor even to
that of their older sisters; young husbands and fathers
have no guides to the behavior which they are assuming
today...Our homes have become launching platforms from
which our children set out on uncharted seas, and we have
become correspondingly more anxious that they should be
perfectly equipped before they go."
How best to equip our children for their perilous voyage on
uncharted seas--that, - it seems to me, is the challenge which the
Agency, Washington, D. C. at the First General Session of the National
*By Earl James McGrath, U.S. Commissioner of Education, Federal Security
Association for Nursery Education, Central High School of Needle
Trades, New York City, March 7, 1951. Published in part in NANE Bulletin
Vol. VI, No. 3, pp. 11-15, Spring 1951.
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