Broadcast by United States Commissioner of Education Earl James McGrath, School for Survival
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OCR Page 1 of 5SCHOOLS FOR SURVIVAL*
The peoples of the world yearn for peace--for peace means
survival. Wherever one travels in foreign lands, and in our own as
well, one senses an atmosphere of tension and insecurity. Yet many
hope that there may still be time to find a common basis on which
the family of nations can live together in friendship and mutal help.
The channeling of the energy which flows from this hope into concrete
projects to increase international understanding is the most urgent
task of our time.
Those who think the United States can isolate itself from the
problems of the rest of the world are wrong. In a world in which one
can eat breakfast one morning in Cairo or Buenos Aires and the next
in New York no one can be unconcerned about the conditions of life
and the activities of peoples in distant lands. The same planes
which carry human beings can also carry epidemics, revolutionary
thoughts, and--I regret to say--bombs.
Rapid communication and travel have stirred up the thoughts
and the emotions of men in underdeveloped areas. Even those with
little or no education, the severely underprivileged, are now realiz-
ing that they can enjoy a fuller life. This vision may cause peace,
or widespread disturbance, or war. For if those who seek the better
life can be given the education they need to realize their goals
*By Earl James McGrath, U.S. Commissioner of Education, Federal
Security Agency, Washington, D.C. broadcast over CBS, January 26,
1952, New York City. Published in School Life, Vol. 34, No. 7,
p. 106.
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