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Statement*
No person questions that, in this period of international
crisis, the requirements of the military and defense production for
steel and other critical material should be-and must be-met. But
it is also imperative that we permit no further weakening of our public
school system. We can't put our youngsters in educational cold storage
for the duration. Education must be obtained on a year-by-year basis.
If a child is given second- or third-class education- or no education-
during his formative years, the handicap will remain for his entire
lifetime.
The education of our young people must remain squarely in the
forefront of any long-term program for the defense of democracy.
Otherwise we run the risk of losing one of the goals we are fighting
for.
*By Earl James McGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education, Federal
Security Agency, Washington, D. C., on "Steel Shortage," to
New York Times, January 1952.
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