Statement by Commissioner of Education Earl James McGrath, One Step Toward Peace
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OCR Page 1 of 11ONE STEP TOWARD PEACE *
The American people want peace. The schools of America should help
the people achieve that goal. Teachers, such as those invited to join the
honor society of Kappa Delta Pi, will want to assess regularly what they
are doing to reach that objective.
In a totalitarian government decisions on foreign policy are made by
leaders often totally divorced from the thinking and the attitudes of the
people. If you wanted to find out what the foreign policy of Germany was
under Hitler all you had to do was ask him, as someone has said. But in
a
democracy such as the United States foreign policy is made by all the people,
or at least all the thoughtful people. In the democratic nations, especially
those with high educational standards, the responsibility for making foreign
policy and determining international relations is more and more being placed
directly upon the citizens themselves. This is as it should be. Foreign
policy affects everyone of us in many ways. In just one international program,
that of the Mutual Security Agency, as much money was spent in one year as
was spent in the entire operation of the public educational system of the United
States at the elementary and the seoondary school levels. The Mutual Security
Agency, in existence only a couple of years, spent between six and one-half
and seven and one-half billion dollars. International policy affects each one
of us personally. It may call to the armed service the man of the house; it
may call the children you have taught or will teach. It is proper that the
school should prepare our citizens for the larger responsibilities being
imposed on them by our commitments in the international field.
* By Earl J. McGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education, Federal Security Agency,
Washington, D. C., to be published in THE EDUCATIONAL FORUM.
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