Speech By Commissioner Of Education Earl McGrath, Can We Meet the Need For Educational Leadership?
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OCR Page 1 of 13CAN WE MEET THE NEED FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP?*
Educational leadership is not a new subject of discussion in our
profession. Much has been written and spoken on this topic. He who
chooses to speak about educational leadership runs the danger of being
trite or uninteresting. Yet I was persuaded to say something on this
subject for two reasons. First, because I believe the kind of leadership
needed today is somewhat different from that required in our earlier
history, and, second, because I believe the proposals I have to make
about the kinds of leaders we need and the type of education they ought
to have are somewhat novel.
In talking about the type of educational leadership needed today
we must of course admit that all periods in our national life have
presented serious educational problems. The decades of the thirties
and the forties of the last century, for example, when. we were attempting
to establish free public education called for courageous end self-sacrificing
leadership. Such men *as Horace Mann, Calvin Stowe, end James G. Carter
responded. Again in the seventies and eighties when the school system
was extended upward through the high school, crucial issues had to be
decided. But in terms of their present size and complexity the schools
were then relatively simple. Now education is big business. Today there
are over 32 million children and young people in our educational institutions.
The value of the educational plants of the Nation runs to nearly 11 billion
dollars. There are more than one tillion teachers of all types. The
Speech by Earl James McGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education, Federal
Security Agency, Washington, D. C., at fall meeting of the Minnesota Council
of School Executives, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 5, 1949.
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