In an attempt to illustrate the insufficiency of the melting pot concept, summaries of speeches from a National Education Association National Conference on Equal Educational Opportunity are paired with news items on the need for humanism in education and on a growing awareness of minority group needs in educational publishing. Speech summaries include: (1) Margaret Alexander on the need for a new kind of education for blacks and whites, (2) Dorothy Davids on Indian education, (3) Meyer Weinberg on educational patterns of two ghetto peoples, American Negroes and Russian Jewish immigrants, and (4) Rev. Henry J. Casso on education for the Mexican-American. (AF)