Education

Education should be open to every boy and girl born in America up to the highest level they can take.

Education is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free men recognize, and it is the only ruler that free men desire.

Tonight, 40 million students are enrolled in our public schools in America; 5 million more students will enter by the end of this decade.

Our opponent has said: 'The child has no right to an education. In most cases, the children will get along very well without it.'

I also call upon our national citizen organizations to undertake intensive educational programs to inform their memberships of recent progress in international cooperation and urge them to consider what further steps can be taken.

Ours is the wealthiest of nations, yet one-sixth of our people live below minimal levels of health, housing, food and education.

It is a great pleasure to leave Washington, where I am lectured to by professors, to come to Costa Rica where I can speak to students.

One of the things which concerned us most was the fact that there were nearly 5,000 Indian boys and girls who had no school to go to.

I commend the report for your consideration in connection with the budget request and the need for new legislation to stimulate research in the field of water resources at the colleges and universities.

I am asking the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to be of every possible help to the District in this important endeavor.

A high rate of investment in education is essential for our national economic growth, our scientific advancement and our national security.

There is another side of the picture--the school drop-outs, the untrained and the unemployed and the underprivileged, the nearly one million young Americans arrested for infractions of the law, the growing number sent to correctional…

I have suggested having a peace corps of young men and women who will be willing to spend 2 or 3 years of their lives as teachers and nurses, working in different countries which are backward and which are just beginning to develop…

First, that we provide 15,000 to 25,000 national scholarships for our brightest and most talented boys and girls, who will return that investment many times over in their useful life to our country.

Our college population is expanding at a fantastic rate.

Thus, today, the university is, in the words of Woodrow Wilson, 'the root of our intellectual life as a nation.'

Secondly, I suggest that the Federal Government and the State government cooperate to provide a loan program for students who may not be advanced enough to secure scholarships, whose parents may not have enough money to send them to…

And that is why we intend to work until a college education is available to every young man and woman with the talent to pursue it.