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Every quote the archive has tagged education.
The Government should never dictate to the people what kind of education is best, but it has an obligation to provide the people with the research and the information they need to decide these matters for themselves.
We must keep it that way, and one of the surest means is to keep our educational system strong and free.
It is good business to hire veterans, and particularly those who have taken the advantage of education.
The habits they are learning today will make them better citizens tomorrow.
I do hereby urge the people of the United States to observe the week of October 8, 1972, as National School Lunch Week
I am particularly hopeful that participation in GI Bill programs can be increased through specific outreach into urban and rural areas, fully informing veterans of available educational and other benefits.
A nation can be rich, a nation can be powerful, a nation can be well educated, but if its people lack character it will not stand.
They spell 'partner' for government officials, law enforcement agencies, educators, and social workers in the more than 6,000 communities that have Jaycee chapters.
It shows you these Yale men can read, anyway.
The main task of the university is to maintain a climate in which, among other things, the critical spirit can flourish.
They must have a chance to become professionals: doctors, nurses, engineers, managers and teachers.
I proposed the Public Service Education Act aimed at increasing the number of good students who choose careers in government.
Do we really believe that every American is entitled to a decent education, decent housing, decent job at a decent wage?
If we are to step into the future without stumbling, we must produce trained citizens in this country.
We must provide for the practical, the vocational.
We must smooth the transition from school to work.
Eduction is the only dictator that free men will ever recognize and the only ruler that free men will accept.
Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment.