Address by Commissioner of Education Earl McGrath, Educational Leadership: Some Thoughts for Tomorrow
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OCR Page 1 of 5EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP: SOME THOUGHTS FOR TOMORROW*
The challenging theme of this convention of
Democracy," points up the vital stake school administrators have in
the full and continued development of the minds, bodies and spirits
of America's young people. It is also a phrase which stands as a
guidepost to the futuro for the U. S. office of Education. I should
like to discuss with you very briefly, these two important and related
aspects of our convention theme.
Our stake in the American educational system is two-fold, for
we are concerned both as educators and as citizons.
Under a democratio ayatem, the individual citizen is the well-
spring of power, with each of us sharing the responsibility for making
critical decisions on matters of public policy. In order to make that
system work, to give it motion and purpose, and to insure the validity
of those decisions, it is essential that we mintain a high lovol of
intelligence among all of our people. The primary means for achieving
this goal is education, for it is in the Nation's schools that the
citizen of tomorrow can be equipped with the knowledge, habits, skills
and attitudes so fundamental to the strengthening and perpetuation
of democratic ideals.
Paramount among our responsibilities in this regard, it seems
to me, is the obligation which we, as edusators, owe our follow citisons
by virtue of the position we hold in the community. The school ad-
VAddress by Earl James MoGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education, Federal
Security Agency, Washington 25, D. C., delivered at the 6th General
Session of the Annual Meeting, American Association of $chool Administrators,
Atlantic City, New Jersey, 8:30 p.m., February 28, 1950.
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