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A Future for Aviation Education. (May 1948.)

Some Implications of Scientific Methods of Secondary Education. (July 1948.)

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DDRESSING a selected group of leaders of schools and colleges both in this country and abroad, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, upon occasion of his inauguration as president of Columbia University on Columbus Day, October 12, said, "If this were a land where the military profession is a weapon of tyranny or aggression-its members an elite caste dedicated to its own perpetuation a lifelong soldier could hardly assume my present role. But in our Nation the Army is the servant of the people, designed and trained exclusively to protect our way of life. Duty in its ranks is an exercise of citizenship. Hence, among us, the soldier who becomes an educator or the teacher who becomes a soldier enters no foreign field but finds himself instead engaged in a new phase of his fundamental life purpose the protection and perpetuation of basic human freedoms."

Volume 31, Number 3

President Eisenhower's address, his first public statement on American education since he became the thirteenth President of Columbia University, has been widely quoted. Because of its appeal for liberal education, academic freedom, and education for democratic citizenship, and believing that its content will challenge all teachers and educational leaders, SCHOOL LIFE presents these selected excerpts from the whole address:

"Today's challenge to freedom and to every free institution is such that none of us dares stand alone. For human freedom is today threatened by regimented statism. The threat is infinitely more than that involved in opposing ideologies. Men of widely divergent views in our own country live in peace together because they share certain common aspirations which are more important to them than their differences. But democracy and the police state

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have no common purposes, methods, or aspirations. In today's struggle, no free man, no free institution can be neutral. All must be joined in a common profession that of democratic citizenship; every institution within our national structure must contribute to the advancement of this profession."

"Democratic citizenship is concerned with the sum total of human relations. Here at home this includes the recognition of mutual dependence for liberty, livelihood and existence of more than 140 million human beings. Moreover, since we cannot isolate ourselves as a nation from the world, citizenship must be concerned, too, with the ceaseless impact of the globe's 2 billion humans upon one another, manifested in all the multitudinous acts and hopes and fears of humanity.

"The educational system, therefore, can scarcely impose any logical limit upon its functions and responsibilities in preparing students for a life of social usefulness and individual satisfaction. The academic range must involve the entire material, intellectual and spiritual aspects of life."

"I do not suggest less emphasis on pure research or on vocational or professional training; nor by any means am I suggesting that curricula should be reduced to the classical education of the nineteenth century. But I deeply believe that all of us must demand of our schools more emphasis on those fundamentals that make our free society what it is and that assure it boundless increase in the future if we comprehend and live by them.

"Love of freedom, confidence in the efficacy of cooperative effort, optimism for the future, invincible conviction that the American way of life yields the greatest

human values-to help the student build these attitudes not out of indoctrination but out of genuine understanding, may seem to some to be education in the obvious.

"Of course, the reverse is true. There is a growing doubt among our people that democracy is able to cope with the social and economic trials that lie ahead. Among some is a stark fear that our way of life may succumb to the combined effects of creeping paralysis from within and aggressive assault from without.

"Fear of the future with a concomitant sense of insecurity and doubt of the validity of fundamental principles is a terrible development in American life-almost incredible in the immediate aftermath of America's most magnificent physical and spiritual triumphs. Only by education in the apparently obvious can doubt and fear be resolved."

"Historical failures in the application of democratic principles must be as earnestly studied as the most brilliant of democracy's triumphs. But underlying all must be the clear conviction that the principles themselves have timeless validity. Dependence by the country upon the schools for this vital service implies no infringement of academic freedom.

"Indeed, academic freedom is nothing more than a specific application of the freedoms inherent in the American way of life. It follows that to protect academic freedom, the teacher must support the entire free system which, among other things, guarantees freedom for all."

veys and publications have been major contributions to the advancement of teacher education programs in the United States during the past generation. His last bulletin, “Teaching as a Career," was only recently announced in SCHOOL LIFE.

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FEATURED in the October 1948 issue of The Phi Delta Kappan is an article on "The Organization and Functions of the Office of Education" by Andrew H. Gibbs, Research Assistant, Division of School Administration, Office of Education. Editor of The Phi Delta Kappan, official national organ of Phi Delta Kappa, professional fraternity for men in education, is Rolfe Lanier Hunt. Phi Delta Kappa national office is located at 2034 Ridge Road, Homewood, Ill.