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There were a dozen other panels, from Educational Reconstruction through Humanities & Philosophy to Museums. Sir Ramaswami Mudaliar, of India, reminded his listeners that misunderstandings work both ways: "The barbarians think we are barbarians." UNESCO's Bernard Drzewieski, a pint-sized Pole, pointed up UNESCO's need: "In some parts of Greece and Poland there are 50 kids to one pencil." But Drzewieski himself had trouble with one small cultural barrier: he attributed the dream of "the new city of Friends" to "Walter" Whitman...
...Drzewieski spoke again in the evening before a larger group in Fogg Lecture Room, enlarging on the principles expounded in the afternoon talk...
...problem facing Drzewieski's division is basically that of illiteracy, and this is where he called for aid from American students and teachers. "It is to our common interest to raise the cultural levels in devastated countries," he said, outlining the tremendous difficulties presented by existing conditions in Europe...
...Drzewieski stressed the poor living conditions of European students in stating that at the University of Warsaw there are only enough beds for one out of every four students...
...teachers of Europe are six full years behind us in knowledge of their fields," Drzewieski pointed out, "because academic and technical material has not penetrated to them during...