Statement by Commissioner of Education Earl James McGrath, The Liberal Arts and Leadership in a Democracy
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OCR Page 1 of 12THE LIEERAL ARTS AND LEADERSHIP IN A DIEMOCRACY *
19; main thesis toright will be that the present intornational crisis is one
which demands not. less but groater attention to, and supports of, liberal education.
Bor the values or liberal education which for centuries have constituted the basis
Viestem citilization are et stako in the presonto world
hove bson other pericds when the thinms which i: denocratic socieby cherishes
have beon attacked, and in come excas of the worle have as times been
appressed. But though the torch of humon Recodom noy sometimes have gono out in
places, cr fickered feebly in others in some part of the has always
continued to outen This is happily still true today.
Two factors, hovever, not mike the world sicuation potentially. more dangerous
to fres insticutions than it has hitherto been. The enemies of democratic political
and social institutions, and the system of liberal oducation from which these
institutions draw their spiritual strength, aro not organized on a world-tride
basis. In alculful programs of propaganda thay have devised powerCul ideological
to attract thousands to thoir standards. Secondly, rapid developments in
scienco, svilt com unication and and highly destructive engines of
increase tho Commusts opportunity to impose a totalitarion order upon the
t
antiro world. Darrocracy on the other hand cannot by its very natuire be imposed on
the vorld, because democtracy rests on a philosophy of acceptance, on of choice.
Yet one world seems frescapable in the years ahead. The questions then that all
parsons need to are that kind of world will it be, democratic
or
sotalitarion?' and steps can bo taken tó vouchsafe the preservation of the
social and the spiritual "values in our humane western traditions?"
U. S. Co. missioner of Federal Security Agoncy,
1. Bos de on Tiberal Asts, sponcoled by College c.:
choce the Divicion of Cancer nation, Diversity of dectigla,
3952.
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