Education

The chance to learn is their brightest hope and must command our full determination.

You represent a great idea: the idea of international educational opportunity.

We are engaged in a great national effort to lift the blight of bad housing, poor education, and unemployment from our cities.

That is why we invest more in education than in any other enterprise in this country, except our national defense.

If your education falters or fails, everything else that we attempt as a Nation will fail.

If our schools and our students succeed, we will succeed.

Nothing--nothing at all--matters more than trained intelligence.

Everything I want to work for, as your President, to achieve peace, to conquer poverty, to build a worthy civilization--all of these depend in a very large degree on what happens in this school and what happens in other schools throughout…

Secretary Gardner flew down to visit me yesterday afternoon and we spent some time reviewing various plans and proposals in the area of health, education, and welfare.

You are helping build a better life for all men based on education and on progress in science and the arts.

I want to pay a special tribute to one of the greatest Cabinet officers of all time-even if he is a Republican--John Gardner, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.

I should like for this period of the 20th century to be remembered as the period when we produced more food to feed more people--because food is the necessary sustaining ingredient for all the other things-the period when we spent more…

I pay tribute to the bankers of America who have given their Government a lending hand and have extended it also to those coming young men and women who need an education and who, when they get it, will reward us all with their increased…

I think that as a result of this meeting and the work that they have already done, the legislation we have already passed, that not only will many thousands of young people be attending college who otherwise would not have been able to…

Under this new loan program, families will finance college education for their children in the same way that they finance the purchase of a home: through long-term, federally guaranteed private loans.

I think that you will find that the historians will record that you lived in a period when we made greater progress in health, education, conservation, and development throughout the world than in any similar period in history.

Learning must erect no barriers of class or creed.

I am happy to transmit to you the first report of the National Advisory Council on the Education of Disadvantaged Children.