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people--ol themeclves, basicelly oo different from ‘American youth of like age—many of chem ace tually began to act bike animals, Yes, sl denne breed .maot ot taking cere of themaelves, cblivious to the fect that thow with evil ides were taking care of everybody else! ... Sach was the pattern then laid out for today’s subversives. Chatting with the youss San Francisco etu- these though: many o oe my mind. Aware that the youthful face before me reflected 2 lack of any pur- outside of ager oe seoaciont, Ss 2 anderlyil ex intelligence there, ¥ ssid: itt ie you have s fot of good ideas. Too bed you aren't aiming for a job where you can put them to work for the benefit of all, in- mead of suppressing them. A few more pean of training aod yoo could become an instructor s aoe of the universities, California or Stanford, for example, Over the years you could pass along your sound ideas to thowssads of other young peo- ple. There woulda’t be moch glamour to it, I know, and it’s certain you woo't make your “for- tune,’ but you would do far more than merely aro aliving. You'd have the deep satisfaction, for time ond for cteveity, of knowing the world has been made a bit beteer off becsus you've been in ic.” | I paused long enough to give what I'd just sid time to dink in. Then 1 put it on him: “How sbout in? What do you chink?” He didn’t answer for s momen hi you're the Giret one who ever suggested it to HE T mean, iz to me jose this way.” . young and old-—tike this boy, ready and willing 09 dedicate themscives to 0 career of tesching—once 4 they sealize the power for good each of thes can exert, individually and personally. All they need is @ reminder, a- word of direction and encourage- ment. Without meaning sny harm those closest to them, even parente~unially the first to com- plin when they find perverts or cubversives in the educations! Seld—do nothing co supply better teachers, Actually many throw “cold water” oo anyone, especially one of their cwa, who has the courage and generosity to offer himself to the all- important task of training the 50,000,000 young Americans now in our schools, Strangely enough, the overwhelming majority of Americans do nos teem to ask themselves the obvious question: "If we who believe in God, Protestants, Jews, Catholics, and those affiliated with wo faith, meg- lect or refuse to teach there 30,000,000, who are our very own, who will teach them?” faviting Disexter But che problem is fust extending itself into all sections of che educations! field. By our seglect, we ore inviting disaster. In his book, Owr Chil. dren Ave Cheated (published in May, 1247}, Doctor Benjamin Fine, education editor of Thr New York Times, gives « frightening picture of the growing crisis in American education, His findings are well summarized in the following: “In many respects what I found wes shocking. Many school cyttens: heve broken dows; tduce- tiem faces « serioes cris, Handreds of com- munities cammot ge? adequate teachers, ¥ spoke to wen and women who have no wore right to be in the classroom shen I beve to pilot # super- penenger plea... . We will exffer the come quences of que prevent meglect of edacetion @ generation beace.” Referring to the face chat over $50,000 of the 850,000 teachers have forsaken the nation’s adu- cational system in the last few yeahs, and thet this dangerous trend still continues with teachers “deserting the classroom by the tus of thousands,” 3. — pap