Address by Commissioner of Education Earl McGrath, Education For International Understanding
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OCR Page 1 of 20EDUCATION FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING*
In May of 1949, shortly after I had assumed the office of
United States Commissioner of Education, I was privileged to
address the Joint Conference on Jewish Education in Atlantic
City. At that time, I took occasion to discuss certain current
problems in our school system, particularly the inequalities of
educational opportunity found at all levels of education. Large
numbers of our children and youth, I reported then, are deprived
of their educational birthright for reasons of race, creed,
national origin, family economic hardship, or the inability of
many communities to provide adequate funds for the education of
their children. Such limitations on the schooling of American
youth strike at the very foundations of the democratic belief that
every individual should have an opportunity to realize his
natural potentialities for his own good and for the maximum benefit
to society. Moreover when democracy is on trial in many areas of
the world the existence of barriers to opportunity in the schools
and colleges of this country jeopardizes our position in the
ideological conflict which now engulfs the entire globe.
America's most pressing educational problems, I said in the
#Address prepared by Earl J. McGrath, U.S. Commissioner of Education,
Federal Security Agency, Washington, D. C., and delivered by
Buell G. Gallagher, at the Annual Jewish Education Dinner of the
Board of Jewish Education, Sherman Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, 6:30 p.m.
December 17, 1950.
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