HISTORY OF THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION Way back in 1925, The International BuReau of Education was founded with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. It later became part of UNESCO. In 1935. In a report presented at the 72nd annual NEA meeting, Willard Givens (later NEA executive secretary) wrote: "A dying laissez-faire must be completely destroyed and all of us... must be subjected to a large degree of social control. .. The major function of the school is the s