The Role of Education in Foreign Affairs

a serious defect in our society. I refer to the neglect of education as a whole by our people. You, of course, know better than I, the conditions in our schools and the meager standard of living we afford our teachers. It is inexcusable that this great country spends more annually on cosmetics, on drink, and on amusements than it does on the education of its young people. It is disgraceful that teaching, the most important of all the professions in a democracy, should be the poorest paid of any activity requiring comparable talent and training. It is notorious that truck drivers, or mechanics, or practically any industrial workers, on the average, receive better pay than our public school teachers. I realize that one's salary is not the only compensation in life, but the amount the public is willing to pay for particular services is an indication of its sense of values and I think its sense of values as to education is false and shortsighted. In conclusion, may I recapitulate briefly. Man's -23