Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-10-20
Travel Vital,
Dean Declares
BY HARRIET GRIFFITHS
Star Staff Writer

Star staff Writer
Educators, in the opinion of
the new dean Of George Wash.
ington University's School Of
Education, need to start packing
their travelling bags.
Up to this point, education
has focused its attention al
most exclusively on the West
ern tradition. says DR.. Francis
Newell Hamblin, formerly dean
Of Ohio University's College of
Education.
Yet many Of the big In
fluences In the totality Of hui
man life come from the East,
and from Africa, he points out.
What many Of US are inter-
ested in Is trying to develop q
substantially new emphasis In
liberal arts education that Is
pelycultural-an effort to base
our Undergraduate and possibly
even graduate education on the
fundamental concept that man
is q single Species" he reports.
Need for Travel Seen
This is Of particular concern
for teachers-to-be, Dean Ham
bin believes: We've got to get
into the public sc h ool+not
have children growing up
thinking that Negroes are in
ferior and that the Chinese live
upside down"
One thing he thinks Is need
ed Is for more university pro-
fessors to get around the world
q bit and pick UP some first
hand experience with foreign
lands and other cultures.
II would hope that within
the not-too- distant future, very
few members Of the faculty Of
this school will not have spent
at least q few months In some
country overseas on some kind
Of professional a activity" he
says.
Dean Hamblin has Travelled
extensively In Europe, Afric o
and Asia in consultant work In
international education, with
the Agency for International
Development, the Peace Corps,
the United States office Of
Education and the Conference
Board Of Associated Research
Councils.
His international ideas took
root in Greece, where he was
executive director Of the United
States Educational Foundation
from 1858 to 1855.
Dean Hamblin at 46 is q
youthful-looking, husky man
with more the appearance Of q
football player than an acade-
mic dean. He was born In Lex
ington, Mass, and educated at
Amherst and at Harvard,
where he earned his doctorate
in education in 1854. He is
married and the father Of two
daughters and a son, and lives
at s109 Woodhaven boulevard,
Bethesda.
Succeeds Dean Fox
At George Washington. he
succeed former Dean ]. n.
Fox, who retired after IS years
In the post.
In line with his hopes for q
broadened cultural outlook for
the academic community are
two Of the deans other ideas
for improving education.
One calls for what he de-
scribes as more specialization
in the field of generalization"
In other words, more people
~should be educated to compe-
tency pretty much across the
board Of human knowledge"
With the vast increases In
this knowledge, there has been
Q tendency for special fields to
become more and more atom
led" he points out.
Human Being First"
I'VE tend to be specialists
first, second, third, fourth and
fifth, and then human beings.
You may be an expert on the
sex life of the fire ant, and
worthless as a human being, q
citizen and a member Of o
family"
He believes an ideal teacher
should be cut somewhat along
the lines of the Renaissance
Mana human being first and
q specialist second.
Another Of his meditations is
that teacher education pro-
grams may be "a little light" in
the social sciences, particularly
in social and cultural anthro-
DOlopV.