Address By Commissioner of Education Earl McGrath, The General Education Movement in America
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OCR Page 1 of 21THE GENERAL EDUCATION MOVEMENT IN AMERICA*
At the outset we ought to fix clearly in our minds certain
facts of contemporary national and international life related
directly to the future. of American education. These facts require
no elaborate development since they have recently been compre-
hensively discussed by thoughtful educators and laymen throughout
the land. Nonetheless, a critical analysis of general education
at the mid-century can at best be incomplete unless it is
reflected against the political and social conditions of the day.
We must recognize the probability of a long period of
international tension. National survival requires that we maintain
a military establishment at unprecedented peacetime levels, and
that at the same time we strive for a just and lasting peace.
No one can forecast with certainty at what intensity the conflict
with communist imperialism will be maintained. It will probably
fluctuate uncertainly for a period of years--8 decade or perhaps
even a generation.
It is plainly evident that, while the struggle between
democracy and communist imperialism has many facets, it is
basically a conflict of ideologies, of two dominant systems of
thought which originate in two completely different conceptions
*By Earl James McGrath, U.S. Commissioner of Education, Federal
Security Agency, Washington, D. C., at Conference on General
Education, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.
November 20, 1950. Published in General Education at Mid-Century,
A Critical Analysis, Proceedings of the Conference on General Education
pp. 11-20.
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