Evening star., 1948-01-04
|WorId-Minded Pupils
Is Goal Of Educators

heavily on advice from represents
tive educators, public leaders and
businessmen. NEA officials empha-
size their determination that the
report should be practical. As .
result of It's cooperative origins.
they believe it will prove to be emf
nently 30.
Support Of many Of the Nations
teachers already is promised, and
NEA expects that . number Of
States viii incorporate the program
In the courses Of study In their
schools. NEA also Is hopeful that
regional prejudices will not prove
an important obstacle to Nation
wide acceptance.
What, to NEA, will constitute
the world-mindedness to be incul-
Gated In American classrooms? Both
attitude and action are embodied
in the proposed creed. A desire
for peace, q recognition of the need
for international cooperation, a
respect for the welfare Of foreign
peoples, q devotion to liberty and
justice all are elements in the at
titude, which then must be trans
lated through education-self-edu-
cation as well as in schools-into
action toward achieving interna-
tiohal well-being. The creed also
embodies 4 faith that world peace
and well-being are possible Of at
tainment.
Recognized on College Level.
This philosophy will be set forth
in the first 100 pages of the forth
coming report, the remainder Of
which will constitute teaching
manual. DR.. Ben M. Cherrington
of the University of Denver heads
the NEA international relations
committee, author OF the report.
Director of the project is DR.. Wilbur
F. Murra.
The need that NEA hopes to fill
on the primary-secondarys school
level is recognized on the college
level by a new continuing analysis
Of United States foreign policy pub
lished by the Brookings 1nstitu-
tion, and reported on at the same
meeting by DR.. George L. Millikan.
This publication, q study guide
to the major problems of United
States foreign policy, was described
by DR.. Millikan as an attempt to
offer teachers and students on the
higher levels q realistic approach
to current problems instead Of the
abstract, theoretical analysis long
favored In American universities.
Value Of Seminars Cited.
Teachers, said DR.. Millikan.
should consider foreign affairs from
the standpoint of action. First they
should examine the facts. Then they
should ask, what shall we do, on
the basis of these facts? This ap-
proach, which he termed the prob
lem approach, has been used sue
cessfully by both the State De-
partment and American Military
Government in dealing with prob
lens of administrative policy, DR..
Millikan pointed out.
The study is proving Unexpectedly
useful to high school teachers, DR..
Millikan reported, indicating that
it may become q valuable supple
ment to the NEA program.
Another opportunity for college
professors to attain realistic I'M
derstanding of international prob
,ems was cited by Bernard Drzewie-
ski, q Polish educator who is direc-
tor Of rehabilitation for UNESCO.
This is offered by UNESCO teacher
seminars, four Of which will be held
next summer, and by exchange Ut
teachers between educational m
stitutions here and abroad. He
predicted organization of an inter-
national association of universities
as a possibility in the coming year.
If this meeting was an indica-
ton, American educators appear
determined to dissociate themselves
from their traditional ivory tower.