Address by Commissioner Of Education Earl McGrath, Education In the International Crisis
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OCR Page 1 of 25EDUCATION IN THE INTERNATIONAL CRISIS*
I want to discuss some of the problems in education that the
Nation is faced with during this period of international crisis. Many
of them represent a further intensification, because of the crisis, of
the problems we were dealing with before the outbreak of the armed
conflict in Korea. Others have assumed new significance in the light
of present world conditions.
Specifically, I should like to talk about the schoolhouse shortage
with particular reference to the shortages in critical construction
materiale under our defense mobilization program, and also about the
alarming shortage of teachers in our elementary schools. In more general
terms, I want to talk about education in the United States as it is.
related to this country' 8. position of leadership in the free world; and
also the importance of education for international understanding. In
this connection I should like to explore such matters as the effective
teaching of the Three R's and the place of foreign languages in our
school curricula. And finally, I should like to touch upon the
significance of UNESCO in the over-all pattern of world education.
Let's start with our schoolhouses under the program for defense
mobilization. There is little question that a great many plans for the
* By Earl James McGrath, U.S S. Commissioner of Education, Federal Security
Agency, Washington, D. C., at first general session, 54th Annual
Convention, Utah Education Association, October 11, 1951, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Read by Assistant Commissioner Dr. Wayne 0. Reed.
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