Address By Commissioner Of Education Earl McGrath, The Educator and the World Community
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THE EDUCATOR AND THE WORLD COMMUNITY*
By
Earl James McGrath
U. S. Commissioner of Education
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Tonight I want to discuss the roles which the teacher, the school
administrator, and the educated citizen generally must play in the days
immediately ahead in the broad field of public affairs, particularly
with respect to this country's new position on the international stage.
No topic is of more pressing importance to the members of our profession,
for I am convinced that the success of contemporary American education
will be assessed in large measure by the extent to which our schools
prepare this and coming generations of students to understand the
place of the United States in world affairs and to play their parts
jointly with the men and women of the other free nations in establish-
ing freedom, amity among the nations, and the general well-being. of all
mankind.
This conviction results largely from personal experiences of the
past two years. During this time I have visited a dozen or more
countries in Western Europe, the Middle East, and South America. Like
many thousands of my countrymen, I thought I knew something of these
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countries and to be sure in a limited way I did. Schooling had pro-
vided some elementary knowledge of their history, geography, social
institutions, and their arts. But these visits abroad were a real
*Before Annual Meeting of Kentucky Education Association, Louisville,
April 13, 1951. 8:45 p.m.
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