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Show Returns From J National Meet Of Educators I1 ' i i Superintendent A. M. Maughan ! ! returned to Millard county on I ; March 2, after having been away v-since v-since Feb. 17, attending an educa- , tional conference in Atlantic City, I. New Jersey. ': The conference of the American J Association of School Administra-tors Administra-tors which he attended, along with , superintendents from 30 other 1 States and a large delegation of ; board members from Utah, is the largest and most important educa- '. ( tional meeting held in America.. Here policies are. formulated and plans made for the educational in- stitutions throughout the country. I There were 15 to 18 thousand school administrators in attend- ance. - t The over-all subject of the con- 1 ference was "The Expanding Role of Education". Many items under . this general topic were considered. "V Two of the most important ones r were: 1. The Responsibility of Ed- ucation in Preserving Democracy. - v 2. Federal Aid to Education. yl The fact was brought out that t '' if democracy is to be preserved, ii education must be expanded and i ; play a more important role in the j A lives of youth and children as well . ' as adults. The schools must go J farther in the training of the peo- v ; pie to understand what democracy 1 ' is. i' Adult education is one phase of t the problem. If our adults are . t ; taught to understand the principles . .,' of democracy, they will appreci- I i ate this type of government. f The ideals of democracy should l ( be taught abroad and especially in the occupied countries, and the l exchange of teachers is a method r used which will help preserve de- t mocracy. f In this method teachers from the "V United States exchange places with i teachers in foreign countries. There j are about 125 or 150 exchange ' teachers in Europe this year, with j - 4 two of them being from Utah. In r I the future this program is to be J expanded to thousands and an ex- ' change of ideas will greatly en- ') hance the meaning o democracy . A throughout the world. j r Regarding Federal Aid to Educa- , tion, the conference decided that j federal aid was superior to state j aid because the federal govern- s f ment is able to tap the large sour- !;; j ces of revenue, whereas the vari- j: 1 ous states can not do so. Since the f states vary so ereatly in the a- " mount of available money for ed- ucational purposes, the federal gov- '; ernment could bring about an equal ; distributionof funds, making a bet- i ter situation throughout the Unit- j ed States. Federal Aid is greatly needed j for both building funds and oper- i j ation costs. Since 1941 there has j ' been an increase of 10 million peo- ;s. j pie, infants who will need to be : j housed in school buildings. :s, i The Taft bill on federal aid to ,: t. 1 education is also being talked of S publicly in a large way. ii An important part of Superin- ( . tendent Maughan's trip included a : - visit to Lake Success, where he at- W . tended some of the meetings of the ; . ; United Nations, and became fam- ij ( . iliar with the general physical set- ; ! up and the procedure followed, as I well as with the various buildings. il |