Statement by Commissioner of Education Earl J. McGrath, Education and the Emergency
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OCR Page 1 of 5-EDUCATION AND THE EMERGENCY*
The present international emergency is likely to be with us.
for a long time. Even if with strength, we avert a third World War,
we can anticipate a global tension for -many-years to come.
Facing such an indefinite period of stress, we in this
country have the solemn obligation to build combat strength and
keep it at a high level indefinitely. But we have an equal oblig-
ation to equip the oncoming generation of youth for life in this
new world, while greatly strengthening the basic services which
meet the nonmilitary needs of the people. It.is not enough that,
with military strength, we assure the survival of the Froe. World;
we must also make sure that the TO rld which survives is free.
Military strength is one essential; but it is only one.
Nonmilitary essentials cannot be regarded as postponable or expend-
able. Cultural, ideological, economic, and moral weapons are just
as important as military weapons in stemming the march of Communist
expansion. The hope of a just and lasting peace lies precisely in
the degree to which the peoples of the Free World do both the military
and nonmilitary jobs well.
Education is a case in point. As U.S. Commissioner of Education -
and as a citizen - I am seriously concerned over our failure as a Nation
to face squarely the dangers inherent in the rapidly deterloruting
public school situation. He are dealing with a threat to our entire
public school system which bids fair, over the next several years,
to become literally overwholming.
By Earl James McOrath, U. S. Commissioner of Edugation, Bederal Security
Agency, Washington, D. C., is Judith Crist, New York
October 1951.
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