Statement by Commissioner of Education Earl McGrath, The Secondary School - Today and Tomorrow
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OCR Page 1 of 17THE SECONDARY SCHOOL--TODAY AND TOMORROW*
Education is the primary means for achieving the American goal of
equality of opportunity. It is in our schools that the individual talents
and capabilities of all young people can be discovered and nurtured. Since
education serves to perpetuate democratic ideals, a democracy cannot afford
not to provide equality of educational opportunity for its youth. Among the
paramount responsibilities of every citisen is the duty to help plan education
for the young people of our Nation. As educators, we are charged with the
major task of turning those school plans into realities, of putting our
professed democratic goals into concrete practice. Our responsibility is
to tailor educational programs to fit the social, economic and political needs
of living in this complex modern society.
In secondary education-=the specific area with which we are concerned
here tonight--it is for us to draw on well over a half-century's experience
and chart an imaginative, yet practical course for the years ahead. The. job
we. face in 1950 offers an unprecedented test of our democratic beliefs and our
professional competence, because for the first time in world history, a nation
has set itself the task of providing education for all of its young people. No
country has ever before attempted to achieve such a goal. In the United States,
however, we are. pledged to the ideal of elementary and secondary education for
all. In my judgment, it is both feasible and desirable to have in school by
the year 1960 ninety per cent or more of all youth of high school age.
As
a point of departure for consideration of several critical problems
in the field of secondary education, let us assume that this American goal has
By Earl James MoGrath, U.8.Commissioner of Education, Federal Security Agency,
Washington, D. C., delivered by Buell G. Gallagher at the 22nd Annual Alabama
State Education Conference, University, Alabama, Wednesday, June 21, 1950.
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