Address By Commissioner Of Education Earl McGrath, Education, Leadership, and International Understanding
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OCR Page 1 of 16EDUCATION, LEADERSHIP, AND INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING*
However coincidental it may be, the fact that your State
Education Week opens on the first anniversary of the historic United
Nations decisionato counter Communist aggression in Korea is singularly
appropriate. For American education today faces no greater challenge
than that posed by the issues at stake in the Korean conflict. The
significance of this conference is further heightened by the fact
that you are focusing attention on the problem of leadership. It is
not an exaggeration, but a simple statement of the facts of contemporary
international life to say that the survival of western civilization
depends upon the caliber of leadership which the United States gives
to the cause of freedom in the years immediately ahead. Democracy,
justice, the dignity of man--all of the fundamental values we cherish
will stand or fall with the way our country measures up to its new role
in world affairs. And much of the responsibility for the development
of leaders equal to these critical times rests with the Nation's
educators.
The profession of education has been increasingly active in civic
affairs. during recent years. The members of the profession are agreed
that administrative officers and teachers have a responsibility to
participate fully in the life of the community outside the school, and
to take leadership in civic activities. But I believe we have reached
a stage in the development. of American culture where school teachers
*Address by Earl James McGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education, Federal
Security Agency, Washington, D. C., on opening date of North Carolina
School Week, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 8:00 p.m. EST,
June 25, 1951. Published in part in the Phi Delta Kappan, Volume XKKIII,
No. 11, December 1951, P. 231.
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