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there is a serious effort to produce good drama and good music, spiritual
and cultural values are being reinforced.
As illustrations of the enduring values of the Educational Exchange
program, I should like to quote briefly from two letters: the first,
written by a Briti-sh girl who spent a year as an exchange teacher in the
United States; and the second, from an American girl who spent a year as
an exchange teacher in England.
Of her experiences in the United States, the British girl has
written: "Firstly, I felt part of the school and the community from the
start. I had ample opportunity for the exchange of educational ideas.
I was placed in a school with a faculty of 58 .teachers; who made me feel
I 'belonged from the opening day
I found the parents, teachers and
children in that lovely southern State just as gracious and hospitable
and generous as tradition speaks of them. The chief professional gains
have been the realization that problems and situations in school, and the
children themselves, are much the same in any country. My great desire
is that more people--more trades, industries, and professions; more
countries-may be given such a glorious opportunity to find out what
world friendship really means, to see it working, and put it into practice.
And of her year of teaching in England, the American teacher has
said: "I wasn't ready to come home. I wanted to stay longer with my many
friends. The elderly couple with whom I lived, when I offered them my key,
said: 'No, that is your key, take it with you and remember this is your
home. We are expecting you back sometime.
The children
were girls
from 8 through 11 years of age, and at first they were a little timid in
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