Patrick Moynihan said "I rise toward the end of this debate for the purpose of reading a short essay on the subject of goals in education and standards in public life. My purpose, very simply, will be to say that on the two quantifiable goals which we are going to legislate today, there is no possibility of our achieving them by the year 2000. And it is a source of some concern to me that we are going forward as we now do, evidently not aware of this. Although, if I may, I, for one, have written in great detail an article in The Public Interest, in the winter of 1991. It is a simple article entitled 'Educational Goals and Political Plans,' saying what on Earth was the Bush administration doing associating itself with these matters? How could the Governors have signed on? And does this mean we have learned nothing from educational research over the past 30 years?" @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordFebruary 4, 1994

I rise toward the end of this debate for the purpose of reading a short essay on the subject of goals in education and standards in public life. My purpose, very simply, will be to say that on the two quantifiable goals which we are going to legislate today, there is no possibility of our achieving them by the year 2000. And it is a source of some concern to me that we are going forward as we now do, evidently not aware of this. Although, if I may, I, for one, have written in great detail an article in The Public Interest, in the winter of 1991. It is a simple article entitled 'Educational Goals and Political Plans,' saying what on Earth was the Bush administration doing associating itself with these matters? How could the Governors have signed on? And does this mean we have learned nothing from educational research over the past 30 years?

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Patrick Moynihan

Illinois

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Editor's note · Context

Moynihan discusses the challenges of achieving educational goals set for the year 2000.

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