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United Nations and our own government in Washington are sticking stub-
bornly to their objectives. Point Four, of course, is still in its
swaddling clothes, and, after its first flare of publicity, may seem to
have become submerged under the pressures of our defense mobilization
program. Anyone who examines the record, however, can see what solid
and substantial progress is being made in this program of technical
assistance to underdeveloped countries. One has only to talk with
officers of our Department of State to appreciate the deep importance
that is attached to this program in our long-term foreign policy.
Similarly with the United Nations. The World Health Organization,
the Food and Agriculture Organization, UNESCO, and the Children's Emergency
Fund--all these are agencies engaged in a world-wide struggle against
poverty, ignorance and disease. In a brief few years they have estab-
lished a pattern of attack on these ancient enemies of mankind.
As much as anywhere, certainly, we members of the profession must
look to the solution of these problems in the field of education. It is
regrettable but true that over two-thirds of the people on this earth's
surface can neither read nor write. Until this dead weight of illiteracy
is overcome there is little hope of lasting progress in the direction of
social and economic justice. In a very real sense, education is a tool--
the primary tool, perhaps--which fashions all progress. "Give me a lever
long enough and a place to rest it on," said the old Greek philosopher,
1
"and I can lift the world." Education is the mighty lever by which we
can hope to lift this troubled earth of ours onto a safer and a sounder
plane.
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