Address by United States Commissioner of Education Earl James McGrath, Education Exchange and International Understanding
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OCR Page 1 of 10EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE AND INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING *
It is a privilege and a pleasure on behalf of the educators
of the United States to welcome you to this country. I hope, and I
believe, that your sojourn here during the next few months will be
both enjoyable and profitable. Knowing my countrymen as I do, I am
confident that, regardless of which community you live in during the
coming weeks, you will be received with a hearty welcome. The members
of the teaching profession will be eager to help you become acquainted
with our educational system and they will join with other members
of the community in trying to give you an understanding of our way
of life.
These exchange programs have a number of purposes but one of
the most important is that of offering an opportunity for professional
development. As the educators of our Nation visit and work with those
of another they gain knowledge about theories and practices which
differ somewhat from our own. It is our hope that you may also gain
new insights into your own educational system as a result of your
study of ours. As you appraise our practices it would be helpful,
I believe, for you to keep several basic ideas in mind, for these
conceptions are responsible for differences between our educational
system and that of other countries.
By Earl James McGrath, U.S. Commissioner of Education, Federal
Security Agency, Washington, D.C., at the general session of the
Orientation Program for Exchange Teachers, Federal Security Agency
Auditorium, Washington, D. C., Sept. 8, 1952, 9:00 a.m. EDT: and
Sept. 12, 1952, 9:30 a.m. Published in part in The Texas Outlook,
Vol. 36, No. 11, November 1952, p. 25.
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