Commencement Address at Bradley University by Commissioner of Education Earl McGrath, The Specialist Looks at His World
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OCR Page 1 of 13THE SPECIALIST LOOKS AT HIS WORLD*
Members of the Class of 1950: I should like to talk with you briefly
this evening about our Nation's now position in world affairs, and about the
great responsibility educated men and like yourselves--
have in connection with Amorioan foreign policy. There are certain fundamoutals
of public affairs which are geing to affect all of us directly, as citisons
in a democratic society, now and for several years to come. I did not feel
it would be emiss, therefore, if we took this Commencement escasion to
reflect on some of those fundamentals, to spell out what we might sall some
cardinal facts of our international life.
Before eeming to grips with those facts, however, let us try to gain
clear perspective by teking a cleser leok at that phrase, "citisens in a
democratic society." I believe the key to the phrase--the stereoscope through
which we ean gain a clear insight into the meaning of eitisenship--is to be
found in the goals of education.
All education has the purpose of producing changes in the individual
educated, changes which can be sumarised as follows: First, education
attempts to broaden and deepen understanding through the asquisition of
knowledge; Second, education seeks to perfect abilities or skills which will
enable the individual to apply his incwledge; and, Third, education is
concerned with changes in attitudes or habit patterns. Briefly stated then,
the goals of education are knowledge, skills, and attitudes. A distinction
may be drawn, however, between two types of education, the "general" and the
*specialised." This distinction stems from the fact that all individuals may
Earl Jomes MoGrath, U.S. Commissioner of Education, Federal Security Agency,
Washington 25, D. C., at 1950 Commoncement Exercises, Bradley University,
Peoria, Illinois, Monday, June 12, 1950.
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