EDUCATION 515 



even in the cities, through all the innumerable ways that educa- 

 tion has to offer. 



Part of education is the creation of great teachers, and there 

 are never enough of them. I sat the other evening with a man 

 who was drawing paleolithic pictures on a tablecloth at our din- 

 ner, a man to whom I owe a great deal, Dr. Paul Sears, who is 

 one of those great teachers. I can remember when he was articulate 

 on this subject long before many other people were and when he 

 went to and fro and up and down the country, like Johnny Apple- 

 seed, dropping seeds of thought that have finally taken root among us. 



Now I haven't got to the details of our recommendations. I 

 see my time is almost up, but I would like, as one-time vandal, one- 

 time stealer of apples in the Lost Eden, to say that teaching is enor- 

 mously important and it is so particularly, way down in the grades. 



I can remember when I first learned about fossils. It wasn't a 

 beautiful spot. I found a fossil in a sandpile, but I took it to some- 

 one who explained to me what it was, and the memory has stayed 

 with me these 50 years or more, and is a part of my feelings for that 

 beauty, which is also time. We must remember, when we approach 

 the enormous masses we have to educate, that time, to many of them, 

 is limited by stress, that we live in different centuries although we are 

 existing in the same spot, even in this room. The thoughts that we 

 have and the necessities that drive us are different ones. Under 

 stress conditions, there is not time to look at the future very fre- 

 quently. This problem therefore is partly an economic problem of 

 uplifting a great mass of depressed people and bringing into their 

 lives something they have not had before, except as it has been an 

 apple secured over a fence. 



Questions and Discussion 



JULIAN SMITH. I think our previous panel member made a real 

 case here for what are now being considered as disadvantaged chil- 

 dren. We are hearing something about some great opportunities for 

 them, now, under our new education act. 



I would like to ask Commissioner Keppel if he would feel it is in 

 the spirit of this act to stimulate our school people to provide some 

 outdoor classrooms and other means of deepening the perceptions of 

 boys and girls who do not yet have the eyes to see or ears to hear what 

 we think of as an American heritage of beauty. I was impressed 

 yesterday with what Dr. Lindeman said, that beauty has to be in 

 the human mind and in the human heart. 



