Dwight Eisenhower actually said...

It is because our citizens have taken direct responsibility for their schools and colleges that, through the years, American education has flourished.

Context

Letter to the Governors Concerning the State and White House Conferences on Education To Be Held in 1955.

09/20/1954

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