NOTES ON THE AUTHOR
Irvin R. Kuenzli has served for 13 years as national executive
secretary of the American Federation of Teachers. Before accepting
this post, Wr. Kuenzli served for nearly 20 years as teacher,
principal and superintendent in several school systems in Ohio.
He has served on several national educational coumissions and
committees, and is a member of the national committee on education
of the American Federation of Labor. For several years, he has also
served as secretary of the Committee on Education for the annual
conventions of the American ?ederation of Labor.
In 1948, It. Kuenzli and his wife flew around the world to study
educational problems in many nations, and to encourage visiting among
the teachers of the world as a means of promoting international
friendship and world peace.   On this trip, IA. Kuenzli served as a
consultant to the Labor Education Division of the U.S. Army in Japan.
He also served as consultant to the new teachers union of Japan which
has enrolled nearly 95 percent of the teachers of Japan in an
organization affiliated with the trade union movement.
Mr. Kuenzli is co-author, with Dr. Floy Reeves and Dr. Lester
Kirkendall, of a book published by the American Federation of
Teachers, in 1948, entitled "Goals for American Education.*