Address by United States Commissioner of Education Earl James McGrath, Teaching and the American Future
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OCR Page 1 of 11TEACHING AND THE AMERICAN FUTURE
by Earl James McGrath
U.S. Commissioner of Education
This ceremony is a milestone in American educational
history. It is significant first because it marks the inaugura-
tion of a new Executive Secretary of the National Education Associa-
tion. We gather here this evening to honor William George Carr
as he takes up the important and exacting responsibilities of
directing the organization with which the welfare of the teaching
profession is closely interrelated. The entire profession wishes
him well and stands ready to cooperate in the significant work
he is now undertaking. It would be superfluous in this company
which knows him so well to describe the many qualities of mind
and personality which fit Bill Carr for the headshap of the
National Education Arsociation. In considering the times in which
we live, however, one attribute is especially worthy of note. The
issues and problems of American education, the matters with which
the head of an organization like the NEA must be concerned, are
increasingly broad and complex. There are no ready-made rule-of-
thumb means for dealing with these problems. Their resolution
requires thoughtful analysis and wise judgment. Possessing these
intellectual qualities in a high degree, and reinforcing them with
unwavering courage, Dr. Carr is eminently qualified for the type of
statesmanlike leadership required in the days ahead. Under his
Delivered at the Educational Conference Observing the Inauguration
of Dr. William G. Carr as Executive Secretary of the National Educa-
tion Assciation of the United States. Statler Hotel, Washington,
D.C. October 12, 1952, 8:00 p.m. EST. Published in The Massachusetts
Teacher, Vol. XXXII, No. 5, Feb. 1953, pp. 5-7. Published in part in
Georgia Education Journal, Vol. 46, No. 5, Jan. 1953; The Mississippi
Educational Advance, Vol. 44, No. 3, pp. 8-10
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