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OCR Page 1 of 4RECORDING*
President Truman said in his 1950 American Education Week
message:
"Democracy demands good education--today more than ever
before. In our present world, the forces of naked aggression can
be met successfully only by free people who know the meaning of
freedom and who know how, together, to defend their heritage of
freedom."
These words of the President suggest the important part that the
schools play in the preservation of our way of life, for the
fundamental freedom- - that on which all other freedoms rest--is
freedom of knowledge. All human beings must enjoy freedom from
want and fear, and freedom of worship and speech; these are absolute-
ly necessary if men are to live in security and in harmony with one
another. But unless there is freedom of knowledge, the other four
freedoms cannot be achieved.
For how can we be free from want unless we know how to create
the things we need for the ordinary activities of everyday living
and for a prosperous, flourishing society? Only free and equal
access to education for work can guarantee freedom from want for
the individual and for society as a whole.
Freedom from fear can only be based upon freedom from ignorance
*By Earl James McGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education, Federal
Security Agency, Washington, D. C. on Mutual System in observance
of American Education Week, November 6, 1950.
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