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International Citizenship
and Responsibility through Education

Draft an educational program embodying principles of international citizenship, stressing the importance of a worldwide outlook from early childhood to be attained through free exposure to customs, folklore, and languages of a variety of nations and cultures. This attitude, instead of destroying loyalty to one's native land, will enable children to compare their own way of life with that of children in other lands and thus develop greater appreciation for their own heritage while sharing the joys of other peoples. Seek to enlarge the borders of children's affections without concern for an alienation of those affections through exposure to new ideas and modes of living.

Let this draft be reviewed by the world's leading educational policymakers, teachers, and every adult interested in the future of youth and country. Let this program be considered in international committees, national agencies, and by state and local school boards and religious organizations. And let every responsible citizen make it his duty to give greater understanding of life and its vital purposes through international awareness to the few or many young people he may daily find entering his sphere of influence.

Let all understand their responsibility to other nations in the same light as they accept responsibility for their countries and individual members of their families. Develop the habit of caring about the problems indigenous to other nations and of working towards their solution as earnestly as if they were matters confronting one's own household or clan. Teach children to pray not only for the playmates whose familiar faces they greet each day, but also for other millions they know not. And above all, teach them that their prayers