PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN UNITY

Abstract

TWO remarkable pamphlets, bearing the titles “National Unity through Intercultural Education” and “What Democracy Means in the Elementary School”, have been published by the U.S. Office of Education at Washington. They belong to a projected series* of about twenty, some of the other titles being “Our Country's Call to Service”, “What the Schools Can Do” and “Hemisphere Solidarity”. The whole series bears the title “Education and National Defense”. Everyone agrees, says the U.S. Commissioner of Education, that “the schools must become increasingly vital centres for the education of youth and adults facing a war-torn world. But how ?” That is the question which this series is meant to answer.