The Future of International Education: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on International Operations of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session |
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Page 53 - To meet the present educational emergency requires additional effort at all levels of government. It is therefore the purpose of this Act to provide substantial assistance in various forms to individuals, and to States and their subdivisions, in order to insure trained manpower of sufficient quality and quantity to meet the national defense needs of the United States.
Page 54 - Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to authorize any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution or school system...
Page 96 - I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion
Page 54 - The Congress reaffirms the principle and declares that the States and local communities have and must retain control over and primary responsibility for public education.
Page 17 - Administrators, the Council of Chief State School Officers, and the National Association of Secondary School Principals (Joint Committee, 1962) and one by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools (1961).
Page 265 - International cultural exchanges under the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (Fulbright-Hays Act) are managed by the State Department's Bureau of Cultural and Educational Affairs.
Page 203 - If international education is to advance these aims — of perception and perspective, of empathy and the humanizing of international relations- — it cannot be treated as a conventional instrument of a nation's foreign policy. Most emphatically, it cannot be treated as a propaganda program designed to "improve the image" of a country or to cast its current policies in a favorable light.
Page 109 - I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.
Page 278 - The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Page 16 - To help insure that our government adequately understands foreign public opinion and culture for policymaking purposes, and to assist individual Americans and institutions in learning about other nations and their cultures. 4. To assist in the development and execution of a comprehensive national policy...