Address By Commissioner Of Education Earl McGrath, Education In a Creative Democracy
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OCR Page 1 of 11EDUCATION IN A CREATIVE DEMOCRACY*
I propose to speak on the subject of education in a changing world
and its purposes in a creative democracy. This subject is particularly
relevant to the problems which you, as teachers, are facing here in
Puerto Rico. For in few parts of the world is yesterday moving so
rapidly into tomorrow. And here, if anywhere, the challenge of the
future is set forth in unmistakable terms.
You will all agree that, under any circumstances, teaching is a
difficult job, requiring the maximum of intelligence, adaptability,
patience and plain common sense. This is true in Dubuque, Iowa, Atlanta,
Georgia, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Here some of you are dealing,however
with problems that would appall many elementary and secondary school
teachers on the mainland.
You are, however, getting results, and that, in the last analysis,
is the real reward of teaching. For many of you, I recognize, it must
seem like an inch by inch operation. But inches add up to feet, and feet
to yards and yards to miles. You have only to look back a decade or so
to realize what a tremendous distance you have come.
It is no light task to try to lift the educational level of an
entire island to a point where its people can deal with the twentieth
century in an informed and decisive manner. It is precisely the energy
*By Earl James McGrath, U.S. Commissioner of Education, Federal Security
Agency, Washington, D. C., at the meeting of the Puerto Rico Teachers
Association, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico,
December 27, 1951. (Morning session)
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