Education

One of the things we have to do is make our children the best educated children in the world.

Do you know that 35 percent of our brightest boys and girls who graduate from high school never see the inside of a college?

And I say that today our children's schools are not good enough.

And we owe it to our Nation to educate our children, for the bedrock of democracy is a constantly rising level of the education of its citizens.

We owe it to each individual child to give him the best education he is capable of absorbing.

A good education is the most valuable resource that you can pass on to your children.

He said he favored raising teachers' pay.

And we need a better educated citizenry than any country to maintain a free society.

I favor Federal aid to education.

Every child here in this community deserves to be well educated.

I am confident I am talking to the rulers of America, in the sense that all educated men and women have the obligation to accept the discipline of self-government.

We need a strong economy if we are going to meet our obligations to the underdeveloped world, to maintain our defenses, to meet our needs in education and health and housing.

In our Democratic platform we have also taken note of unfair discriminations under which some of our people suffer, in securing access to housing, jobs, education and other community opportunities.

Our sons may stay at home, the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches, and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

The answers can be found only by broadly informed, wisely sympathetic, spiritually inspired minds, the product of general education that properly blends the practical and technical with the liberal and cultural.

I repeat: this kind of education is sorely needed in this country--and throughout the world.

I also urge Federal, State and local officials, as well as religious, civic, patriotic, educational, and other organizations, to arrange for appropriate ceremonies on Citizenship Day, in schools and churches and other appropriate places…

And I know that in this institution just as in all others, we have our devoted educators trying to get over to all of their students that thought: let us strive to understand--understand each other, and our Nation to understand others, and…