Remarks from United States Commissioner of Education Earl James McGrath
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I want to thank all of you for sitting with this committee
whose work will doubtless be rather arduous. I don't think the
problems before you can be dealt with in one meeting. But this
group is thoroughtly familiar with problems of vocational education
and other types OF education as well, and, therefore, you will be
able to give very sound and wise counsel: As I have thought about
what should be done with the results of your labors; that is, what
form the report of your deliberations should take - it seems to me
that whatt we:need now is not a report of several hundred pages, but
rather à very terse, briet statement dealing with fundamental
principles and broad solutions to our problems. This is the type
of statement which our professiona 1. colleagues can read quickly,
gain an inderstanding of the problems you will have considered,
and learn about your recommendations.
This type of meeting has been needed for a long time: This.
meeting is not the result of the Hardy Report, nor of any problems
that may have arisen in the last severall years. The recent history
of vocational ceducation shows that this meeting should have been
held five or ten years ago. We have had vocational education of the
kind that this Office is concerned with for 35 years. There are of
course many non-Federally - supported programs of vocational education
in various States. Certain problems emerged in connection with the
Federally supported vocational education program long ago. The men
and women who had a hand in originating this program or in developing
Opening remarks by Earl J. McGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education,
Federal Security Agency, Washington, D.C., at the two-day meeting of
the Commissioner's Advisory Committee for the Further Development of
Vocational Education, Washington, D. C., January 28, 1953.
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