556 ADDRESSES AND STATE PAPERS

Day care and preschool training are equally essential — not only to
protect the neglected child but to reach him early with the head-
start and hand-up necessary to prevent a lifetime of hand-outs.

Attitude training should be instituted within our schools as a co-
equal partner of academic education. By accommodating the im-
mediate and significant environmental and social problems of our
day within our public school curricula, we can increase the aware-
ness and ability of our next generation to respond to the challenges
of the future, to reject all that is wrong, to respect and revitalize all
that is right within our society. Prejudice and pollution, crime and
delinquency, narcotics and sex should be approached frankly, honestly
and promptly by our public schools.

Adult education and employment training must become a con-
tinuous, integral part of public education. The neighborhood school
should be a community center affording after-hour educational oppor-
tunities to upgrade basic skills. Community colleges and ETV also
pose great promise and potential. Above all, we must expand, experi-
ment with and exploit every facet of our vocational-technical school
programs. We will never eliminate poverty until we eliminate un-
employment and underemployment.

In our efforts to cure social ills, to create cities which justify civic
pride, we must search for a cohesive force. Education can be this com-
mon denominator, the cherished value shared by all Americans as the
foundation of a free society, the key to progress. Investment in edu-
cation will be supported by the public and thus is the logical focal
point in our attack upon those psychic and social problems which
prey upon the community. Certainly, the Denver Area School Super-
intendents' Council's recognition of education's profuse and profound
power generated their sponsorship and the spirit of this symposium.

A keynote address is not intended to provide precise solutions but
to frame problems and suggest strategies. One cannot help but see in
Denver's past and present all the human potential to triumph. You
have a civic heritage of determination in the face of adversity; you
have the appetite to attack the problems; you have — and rightfully
so — a fierce, inspiring pride in your community. You are on top of
the problem and ahead in the game! Ladies and gentlemen of Denver,
I salute you.