Article By Commissioner Of Education Earl McGrath, The Fountainhead Of Democracy
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OCR Page 1 of 7THE FOUNTAINHEAD OF DEMOCRACY*
During the past two years I have been privileged to visit
with educators and laymen in almost every section of the United
States and in a dozen different countries in Western Europe, the
Middle East, and South America. Through these many conversations
two themes thread their way, each directly related to the teach-
ing of democratic freedoms in our schools.
There is a steadily increasing interest in citizenship
education in this country. Farmers, laborers, professional people,
businessmen--whatever group one cites, the same general question
keeps recurring. Americans are asking: How can we best give a
citizenry the wisdom, resourcefulness, and maturity needed for
the perilous years ahead?
Abroad, the people who look to the United States for leader-
ship in the struggle against communist imperialism are listening
and watching. They listen to our declarations of faith in the
democratic ideals of justice, brotherhood, and equality of
opportunity. They watch the way we conduct ourselves in domestic
and foreign affairs. And they ask: How do American deeds measure
up to the American Creed?
*By Earl J. McGrath, U.S. Commissioner of Education, Federal Security
Agency, Washington, D. C., published in The School Executive,
February 1951, pp. 63-64.
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