Education

The prosperity the Nation now enjoys gives us a rare opportunity and, I believe, a profound obligation to do more to ensure the education of all of our children.

As I have said many times, every problem in education in America has been solved somewhere, by somebody, in America.

None is more important than educating our children—all our children—to world-class standards.

The Federal Government has a special, historic responsibility for the education of American Indian and Alaska Native students.

We have succeeded in the last 5 1/2 years in opening the doors of college to just about everybody in America.

Funding for Goals 2000 is cut $255 million below the President's request.

What we really need to do is to make sure that every child, of whatever race and of whatever station, in whatever neighborhood they're born in, has the chance to live the success stories that you have lived.

Given the opportunity to work and to learn, there is no limit to what our young people can do.

An investment in education is clearly the most important long-term economic investment we can make in our future.

Give a HOPE scholarship to make the first 2 years of college free for virtually all Americans.

Let's make a commitment that our elementary and high school education will be world-class for everybody, just like college education is.

Who do you really trust to do more to build the best public schools in America for all of our children?

We have recognized the increasing importance of a college education to our position in the global economy.

Teaching is not a job but a mission.

If we truly believe in these things, then we should help to expose all our young people to the world of work.

We must invest more in the power of the human mind, in the potential of every single one of our children.

Much more, however, needs to be done to increase the public outreach and education activities about these important laws and options.

Good teachers are the key to good schools.