Association of Governing Boards of State Universities and Allied Institutions' 30th Annual Meeting

Keeping grownups growing, not going back to school but going on with life, education out of the adults, buy the adults, pour the adults, and that's why these organizations of women all to our country are trying to do. I believe that an educated first year respect of age has these things. First of all, a storehouse of knowledge, second of mind that thinks straight, third mental humility, fourth that he has a fine sense of values and knows how to use them, fifth that he has an excellent philosophy of life, and sixth that he has a fitness of the things which we call judgment, or common sense, or as we say in Iowa, forced sense, which means stable thinking. These are the things that we have to have in order to have well-educated persons in order

to take the leadership for the United States. Of course, we have to grow up because there are so many things that we as adults must keep our eyes on, too, and 41% of our people are said that they believe in adult education and want to keep on with their education, mostly because we have such a fast-changing world. Like Allison Wonderland, we have to run very fast and we'll write where we are. And then through this and that, we know that we have to keep America and her fine place of leadership, which she already exercised in the world. And then we must preserve and strengthen our democratic forms of life all the time. These things we must do irrespective of age. So what I moved into Washington, the first thing that I wanted to do was to look over the bills and Congress that were pending and had to do with education. Musting my surprise, there were 200 bills that were pending, all kinds of things, Congress that isn't supposed to have so much to do with education.

Personally, I'm against federal aid to education. I believe it's right. And yet I want to look to see what those bills were. There's everything. Fixing a yonster's teeth, 90 percent of the children in school need health or their teeth. Give an agricultural surplus a school luncheon. Seeing that no indoctrination of our students takes place, it is the least bit insidious. Seeing that we have character training. And then House Resolution 3233 says it shall be set up in the middle west. A university with a 25 million dollar appropriation, which will be called a university of universal peace, which will give a degree of justice and peace. That was new to me. I hadn't heard of that. But do you know that almost always the bills that are Congress and whatever our schools are doing show the anxiety in the minds of our citizen right? When we have a terrible death rate on the roads, we immediately put in safety driving

classes. When our delinquency is bad and there's a crime wave, we put in character training classes. When there's divorce and we that trend is going up, then we put in what we call family relationship courses. And then we have political discussions and worries. Then we put in loyalty oaths. And look at the context of our books. All these things proved to us what we're thinking about in the United States of America. Our worries and our aspirations are shown in the schools of our country at all levels. And so as I looked over these bills and I looked over courses now given an asking world, it seemed to be our greatest challenge to education today is to see if sociology can catch up with technology. Technology has moved so fast. We have atomic power. We have jet propulsion.

We have synthetic claw. We have miracle drugs and we have a lifespan increased to a new peak. But at the same time, we have bribery and national defense. We have gamblers in city halls. We have drug addicts. Yes, and we have West Point and basketball primers. And might I go on to say we have panty hunts taking place over the trancems and fire escapes of the girl's dormitories. It seems to me the citizenry of tomorrow that we are educating in our universities and colleges today must be taught to feel that yet, to bridge it that comes in between our inventions, our abilities, our talents, our builders, and our terrible spiritual and moral disintegration, those I feel are the things that we have to look into. Now for instance, one of our greatest inventions of all times, as many of us know, was automobile.

To take it away would be a terrible catastrophe. But you realize that in this year it is taking its millionth victim in death on our roads. You know that the Sunday driver leaves two-thirds of our space in church empty. You know too that it is doing a great deal of real estate and making this suburban areas much more important. And taking away the stores and the theaters of the urban areas into the drive-ins outside. What's it doing to women? Well, since women have become drivers, they go about a great deal, leave their homes. They see things they want to buy. They're not home nearer as much at meal time. They join clubs. They too feel that they, and I have heard say that women driving, spoils a budget of the family, makes the meals very irregular, and diets and such things have been thrown

out the window. So that's changed women's life a great deal too. And what about the children with a hot rod and all the things that we hear about in the racing up and down our roads? Yes, automobile was a technical advancement with sociological overtones. And I can tell you the same story about zippers, about scotch tape, and about the can opener you can buy in the five and ten-cent store. Of course, the greatest thing that we have to adjust ourselves to is television, which has changed the habits of man, his children, his home. And then the greatest question of all is, what is going to happen to atomic vision? Is it going to be used for the welfare of mankind, or for the killing of our men? And then I think what we have to say is that we either have to grow up or we're going

to blow up. And the figuring growing up, of course, is taking place in our schools and colleges and also with adult education. In this trip, in this job of mine, it was quite necessary that we take trips over this world of ours. You know that we in America talk so much about saving the world, but so little about understanding the world. And so when understanding the world, we have tried in our organizations, many others, to write to adults overseas, 25,000 women arriving to pen pals overseas, exchange scholarship, and many of them in your own universities and colleges, exchange faculty, which is always good. It's changed persons coming over and living in our homes to see what it means to live in a democratic way of life, all these things we have done. The fine and idle organizations are wise if we take large groups of women overseas and visit over T-Tops and really exchange ideas.