Address by Commissioner of Education Earl McGrath, Planning Secondary Schools For Tomorrow's Youth
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OCR Page 1 of 19PLANNING SECONDARY SCHOOLS FOR TOMORROW'S YOUTH*
Our concern with the problem of planning secondary schools
for tomorrow's youth is two-fold. For this is a question which is
of critical importance to us not only as educators, but as
citizens in a democratic society. The grave implications of this
dual role for each of us assume more significance today than at any
previous time in our nation's history.
In the mid-twentieth century, the citizen of a democracy
finds his basic ideèls and beliefs under relentless attack.
Totalitarians challenge his faith in the brotherhood of man and mock
his devotion to the cause of freedom. Again and again, he is told
that equality and justice are hollow concepts, devoid of meaning
and value.
With the very existence of democratic institutions at stake,
it is a sobering, almost a terrifying experience to face up to the
responsibilities of American citizenship in today's divided world.
It is easier and more comforting to close our minds to those tremendous
responsibilitles and turn our backs on the urgent problems of
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contemporary public affairs. But, as we know, it is precisely such
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paralysis of mind and spirit which makes men embrace totalitarian
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philosophies, and which led step by step to the spiritual emasculation
*Address by Earl James McGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education, F.S.A.
Washington 25, D. C., delivered at the 34th Annual Convention of the
National Association of Secondary-School Principals; Kansas City,
Missouri, February 18, 1950., published in The Bulletin of the National
Association of Secondary-School Principals, Volume 34, Number 170,
April, 1950, pp. 105-114.
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