Address by Commissioner of Education Earl McGrath, Fundamental Education as a Basis for International Understanding
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OCR Page 1 of 28FUNDAMENTAL EDUCATION AS A BASIS FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING*
Taking part in this seminar is highly stimulating and
exciting. Stimulating, because we are exchanging facts and ideas,
and experiencing the personal and social enrichment which flows
from intercultural communication. Exciting, because we are
pioneering together in an educational enterprise which promises
to open new vistas for all mankind; yes, in time, to change the
course of human events. Together we are developing plans to give
all our people the basic knowledge, intellectual skills, and
spiritual qualities essential to personal development and cultural
understanding. We are of course concerned with courses of study,
subject matter, textbooks, and all the ther paraphernalia of the
school. But in all our considerations I hope we will keep before
us the thought that we may be dealing with the destinies of
countless millions of human beings now alive and others yet to come.
The education of the masses in all the nations is the only sure
basis for the general well-being of all peoples and our only hope
for permanent peace. Ours is an age of decision. To decide between
alternatives requires knowledge and judgment. Our task is to lay
plans for the development of these qualities in all our countrymen.
*By Earl James McGrath, United States Commissioner of Education,
Federal Security Agency, Washington, D. C. as Head of U.IS.
Delegation attending the Inter-American Seminar on Elementary Education,
Montevideo, Uruguay, Oct. 26, 1950. The Seminar is sponsored by the
Organization of American States, the United Nations Educational,
Scientific, and Cultural Organization, and the Government of Uruguay
Reproduced in Vital Speeches, Vol. XVII, No. 5, Dec. 15, 1950, 148-Y53.
Condensed in World Affairs, Winter 1950, pp. 102-105.
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