Statement by United States Commissioner of Education Earl James McGrath, American Education and the United Nations
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OCR Page 1 of 6AMERICAN EDUCATION AND THE UNITED NATIONS*
At least half the men and women who came to the Third National
Conference of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO were connected
with education in one form or another. Over 100 colleges and universities
sent officially accredited delegates. A score of university presidents
and representatives from the country's leading educational associations
were there. Even more heartening was the number of classroom teachers,
principals, and specialists in various fields from art to zoology, who
had come to Hunter College from all parts of the United States.
University professors and school administrators took a prominent
part in the leadership of the sections, panels and work groups into which
the conference was divided. Also meeting with the professional educators
were several hundred students whose comments and observations carried
equal weight in defining problems and offering suggestions. Students
too joined with adult leaders to formulate many findings related to the
educational phases of the conference.
Group after group took hold of the need for a complete programme
of education that would translate information about the United Nations
and better knowledge of other peoples into the familiar facts of every-
day living. Experts in elementary education, as well as those from
the secondary schools and at the college level, were agreed that teaching
about the UN and the Specialized Agencies be regarded as an important
part of all regular school activities. When it came to a discussion of
*By Earl James McGrath, U.S. Commissioner of Education, Federal Security
Agency, Washington, D.C., published in UNESCO Courier, Volume V, No. 4,
April 1952, page 12.
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