Statement By Commissioner Of Education Earl McGrath, Art Education In a Free Society
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OCR Page 1 of 17ART EDUCATION IN A FREE SOCIETY*
This morning I would like to discuss with you, first, certain
aspects of the international situation and the mob.lization program
which have serious implications for the whole pattern of democratic
values lying at the base of our culture; secondly, the ways in which
these forces might distort our educational systen and affect the
arts; and, thirdly, what I conceive to be the very important role
which members of this association must play in meeting their
responsibilities both as citizens and educators in this time of
national emergency.
Speaking in St. Louis a f ew days ago, Mr. William C. Foster,
Chief of the Economic Cooperation Administration, g'àve this measured
estimate of the progress the United States is making as the leader
of the Free World:
"Within the coming eighteen or twent.y-four months,
rearmament will be well along. We shall. then- command a
physical force--and the resources to brick it->roughly
equal in defensive strength to that of all our friends and
possible enemies combined. This is a sweeping statement
(Mr. Foster continues), but true. Compere the dollar values
of Gross National Products. That of the Soviet sphere,
=By Earl J. McGrath, U.S. Commissioner of Education, Federal Security
Agency, "ashington 25, D. C., before Annual Meeting of the National
Art Education Association, Statler llotel, New York City, March 29,1951
Published in part in this Is art Education - 1952,
pp 27-33; National ine Education association Convertion -
an Evaluation, Ue. 9. no 3, may 1951.
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