Address By Commissioner Of Education Earl McGrath, Cooperation Of Education and Social Work
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OCR Page 1 of 19COOPERATION OF EDUCATION AND SOCIAL WORK
by Earl J. McGrath#
U. S. Commissioner of Iducation
Federal Security Agency
It is a real pleasure to meet with the members of the National
Conference of Social Work and an honor to be invited to discuss with
you certain ways in which the members of the professions of social work
and education can cooperate to the advantage of both groups, and to our
people generally. I want at the very outset to congratulate the members
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of this profession for having had the wisdom in the past to create an
organisation of this type, and for continuing these meetings which through
the years have been of immeasurable value in clarifying your own objec-
tives and in interpreting your activities and your plans to the lay public.
This forum, in which professional and lay workers in the field of social
welfare can exchange ideas and viewpoints, might woll be adopted in other
professions. I an confident that a similar organisation including college
and university teachers, and members of the boards of trustees which
legally control these institutions, could do much to enlighten the lay
public concerning the purposes and the practices of American higher
education. I also wish to take this opportunity to signalise the extra-
ordinarily fine program of social work education provided in the School of
Applied Social Sciences of Western Reserve University. The pioneering
spirit which this institution has exhibited especially in preparing leaders
for group work is an inspiration to all of those interested in the advance-
+ddress at Meeting of National Conference of Social Work, June 14, 1949,
Cleveland, Ohio
Published in The Social Welfare Forum, Official Proceedings, 76th Annual
Meeting of the National Conference of Social Work, Cleveland,Ohic,
June 12-17, 1949, by Columbia University Press, New York, 1950
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