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    "ocrText": "EDUCATION, LEADERSHIP, AND INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING*\nHowever coincidental it may be, the fact that your State\nEducation Week opens on the first anniversary of the historic United\nNations decisionato counter Communist aggression in Korea is singularly\nappropriate. For American education today faces no greater challenge\nthan that posed by the issues at stake in the Korean conflict. The\nsignificance of this conference is further heightened by the fact\nthat you are focusing attention on the problem of leadership. It is\nnot an exaggeration, but a simple statement of the facts of contemporary\ninternational life to say that the survival of western civilization\ndepends upon the caliber of leadership which the United States gives\nto the cause of freedom in the years immediately ahead. Democracy,\njustice, the dignity of man--all of the fundamental values we cherish\nwill stand or fall with the way our country measures up to its new role\nin world affairs. And much of the responsibility for the development\nof leaders equal to these critical times rests with the Nation's\neducators.\nThe profession of education has been increasingly active in civic\naffairs. during recent years. The members of the profession are agreed\nthat administrative officers and teachers have a responsibility to\nparticipate fully in the life of the community outside the school, and\nto take leadership in civic activities. But I believe we have reached\na stage in the development. of American culture where school teachers\n*Address by Earl James McGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education, Federal\nSecurity Agency, Washington, D. C., on opening date of North Carolina\nSchool Week, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 8:00 p.m. EST,\nJune 25, 1951. Published in part in the Phi Delta Kappan, Volume XKKIII,\nNo. 11, December 1951, P. 231."
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