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The World Educational Crisis: A Systems Analysisreviewed by Wilton S. Dillon — 1970 Title: The World Educational Crisis: A Systems Analysis Author(s): Philip H. Coombs Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford ISBN: , Pages: , Year: 1968 Search for book at Amazon.com With the world facing the Seventies, an American flag stands on
the moon, President Nixon urges American leadership in supersonic
transport, and U.S. Commissioner of Education James E. Alien, Jr.
calls for an attack on illiteracy in America, describing the "right
to read" as "education's moon—the target for the decade
ahead." The time is also ripe for supra-partisan American
leadership in articulating how national self-interest can be served
by taking an international approach to education.
As war jets screamed overhead and an arsonist ignited the Al
Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, I recently took part in the first major
international gathering of politicians and educators since the
first moon landing. At the Rehovot conference in Israel, I found no
participant able to get the moon off his mind. Clearly, some of the
earth's schoolmen and governments are being pulled intellectually
into lunar orbit. Something akin to "reading readiness" seems to be
developing in the wake of the moon landing; men and institutions
stand poised to cooperate, on... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Wilton Dillon
The Smithsonian Institute Wilton Dillon, citizen of Virginia and author of Gifts and Nations, once earned an American Legion citizenship award.
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