ABSTRACT
From securing simple literacy and technological preparedness, public education has progressed through the encouragement of orderliness and health towards conscious preparation for world understanding. Campaigns for international understanding are seldom given really effective support; yet in one sense much progress has been made. Internationally important events have greatly widened everyone's horizon. However, schools can work only in the social context woven about them by adults. Television has been very important in Britain in breaking down many barriers. The sobriety and responsibility of both BBC and independent programmes deserve high praise. Cumulatively this awareness adds up in children's minds. It is extended in school, both in formal lessons and in educational broadcasts and films. The great American exceptions to the parochial tradition in journalism, like the New York Times and some of the big regional papers with a wide influence show up the inadequacies of the typical publication.
