Statement By Commissioner Of Education Earl McGrath, Educational Television
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OCR Page 1 of 10EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION*
The responsibility of Government to protect the public interest
at all times is a clearly recognized principle, particularly so when a
new frontier is being opened. The shameless exploitation of natural
resources in-the opening of the Great West demonstrated the result of
governmental ailure to protect the public interest. Mountain ranges
demuded of timber and the blank openings of abandoned mines are mute
evidence leading us in a later day to wish that governmental leaders
had earlier exhibited more foresight.
Likewise, the concern of the National Government in protecting and
furthering the cause of education goes back to our national beginnings.
Even before the Constitution of the United States of America hed been
written, the precedent was set. In opening the Northwest Territory, the
Congress of the Confederation adopted an ordinance which reserved part of
the public lands for educational purposes, thereby establishing a precedent
which was followed without deviation in the subsequent admission of every
one of the States into the Union. There is, of course, a difference
between setting aside capital assets such as land to endow education and
reserving channels of communication for use by educational institutions
and systems; but both actions rest on the same fundamental notion that
the public interest is best served when the need of the people for uni-
versal access to good education guides governmental action.
The point can be sharpened further. Education depends upon
*By Earl J. McGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education, Federal Security
Agency, Washington, D. C. published in State Government, Angust 1951,
Vol. XXIV. No. 8, pp. 209-211.
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