INSERT ON EDUCATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00901R000100230075-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 6, 2001
• Sequence Number: 75
• Publication Date: January 1, 1978
• Content Type: OUTLINE

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INSERT ON EDUCATION
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Today - trend toward equality in education
- concern for racial balance in classroom (busing, etc.)
- efforts to ensure a ual o ortunity to all Americans for a
1st rate education court decisions, etc.)
Does this quest for equali X,mea~ hat excellence will suffer? Not necessarily;
equal opportunity educati na.s;-ot east common denominator education.
- in,search f~ ,,gual opportunity we cannot reject knowledge/experience
which isF`` bbeyond the grasp of some.-F,
o The more sophisticated our society becomes, the more we
need intellectual excellence.TL ?-ic 4,
o Equality of opportunity means all levels of education must
be available to all so that individuals can develop
intellectual capabilities to their maximum.
o But we are not all born with equal powers and faculties.
Some will achieve success in the arts while others will
be drawn to the sci e4i, Some will want and be ca able
of pursuing ideas arms ,Intellectual thoughts to .,e. frontiers;
others will find their true talent in that which their
hands can create.
o True equality of opportun-ity means that the chance for
excellence through education must exist for each of us,
whatever natural abilities we have,' Sohn Silber, President
of Boston University, said recently, "Rejecting excellence
in the interest of women and minorities is in effect a
condescending adoption of a lower standard for them."I,
Does the Federal Government have a role to play in offering these kinds of
opportunities?
Perhaps; but I believe that role is limited.
o NEA believes 33% of federal operating budget should be
devoted to education. Only 7% now.
o No % is either right or wrong; what is right or wrong is how
$ is spent.
The F-9,ral Government should help com ur~j.ties finance programs
which the communit t feel are needed which they cannot
otherwise a ord.
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o The communities themselves must decide what they
need because they know best what needs they exist
to serve.
o Any attempt by the Federal Government to centralize
or impose programs across-the-board will waste funds
where those programs are not needed and deny them0to
other programs needed in other places. The-ems`s+--1/e
solution approach - So dear to bureaucratic hearts -
will not work.
- The Federal Government should finance research --both basic
and directed --in all fields.
- The Federal Government should assist schools in finding1w ys
to operate more economically/effectively. Non-interfer" 01-4__..-
management assistance might permit more of our small schools
and colleges to continue in operation., -'hus encouraging
educational opportunity and diversity.
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',f/ational Education strength comes from
o 4.- demand for excellence,#
- encouragement of diversity--,
Ath of which permit broader opportunity to all.
decentralization - where community needs can be recognized
and satisfied; /here local initiative prevails.
Only where federal funds can encourage these strengths, should it
be considered.
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 OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
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Date: 3 October 1978
SUBJECT: Insert on Education for DDCI
REMARKS:
This is just one tack of many that
the DDCI might take. I tried to use the
general ideas you said he expressed on the
phone and provide one rationale for them.
I assume it is to fit in a larger statement.
If it isnt what he wants, let me know.
STATINTL
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Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
[phone]
Herbert E. Hetu
Director of Public Affairs
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Wants notes. (broad) on philosophy of education; trend toward
equality -- how it squares with excellence; appropriate Federal
role; NEA believes 33% of Federal operating budget should be
devoted to education, whereas today, only 7% is devoted to
education; values of decentralization versus Federal intrusion;
diversity as represented by private system versus escalating cost.
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