General Education and the Creative Arts

The Author, who is president of San Francisco State College, discusses the need for a tremendous number of educated men and women to demonstrate to the world that democracy is a way of life worth following; the need to preserve freedom of education to continue our advances in science and technology; the need for social experimentation if we are to keep our own level of economic prosperity stabilized; the need to keep people informed concerning world conditions; the need for understanding one another throughout the world; and our need to develop a philosophy of life which will sustain us through long periods of tension. The article is from an address given by Dr. Leonard at the MENC California-Western 1951 convention.