Statement By Commissioner Of Education Earl McGrath, Greeting to British Teachers

Greeting to British Teachers by Earl J. U. S. Commissioner of Education Federal Security Agency August 22, 1949 You are a part of one of the most significant programs for develeping understanding between your country and mine. We have discovered during the past three years of this interchange of teachers that your colleagues in 215 cities of 40 States have spoken to more than 10,000 audiences, telling them the story of the Uhited Kingiom. Fertunately most of these commonities were small cities, such as Manhattan, Kansas; Manitowac, Wisconsin; San Angelo, Texas; Provo, Utah; Jackson, Michigan; and White River Junction, Vermont. There your forermners came to know America intimately by sharing in the life of the communti, by teaching the children of the lavyer and dostor as well as of the electrician and the plumber. There also they participated in Parent Teacher Associations, church societies, and civic groups, bringing to these people the firsthand accounts of life and conditions in Ingland, Scotland and mles. One of your responsibilities during the caming year will be to assist in breaking up the prototypes which have grom up about the English, the Scots and the welsh. You know the famous story about them: the Scoteman who throws his bread on the waters, but makes sure the tide. is coming in; the Welshman who prays on his