Statement By Earl McGrath, Area Studies -- A New Dimension In General Education
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OCR Page 1 of 14AREA STUDIES---A NEW DIMENSION IN GENERAL EDUCATION*
Perhap.s the greatest educational challenge of our time is to
determine how it our schools and colleges can train mature, resourceful,
world-minded young Americans, capable of assuming unprecedented inter-
naitional responsibilities. For the most important fact in mid-century
American life is that the United States has become the leader of the
free peoples of the world. Unfortunately, however, many of our
countrymen are-not conscious that the position of the United States
in international affeirs has changed markedly during the past decade.
And because we do not all fully recomize this change, .we do not always
reactias a people as intelligently as we should toward world problems.
Yet, unless the people of the United States assume their responsibilities
as `world leaders, our own nationnl life will be jeopardized.and freedom
may be imperiled throughout the world:
It is perfectly clear that a far greater nümber of Americans will
in the coming years be in direct contact with the citizens of
foreign nations, than has hitherto been the- case. The rapid means of
communication that hove come into use during the past twenty years enable
an American to have his breakfast in one of the capitals of Europe
and dinner in his own home in the United States on the same day.
Anyone who has made use of the air facilities in transoceanic travel
is. impressed with the fact that great numbers of our meople in all
walks of life are making use of this rapid means of transportation.
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By Earl James McGrath, U.S. Commissioner of Education, Federnl Security
Agency, Washington, D.C., published in Journal of Higher Education,
Vol. XXII, No. 5, May 1951, pp. 236-243.
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