John Kennedy actually said...

"The proper Federal role is to identify national education goals and to help local, state and private authorities build the necessary roads to reach those goals."

"Our present American educational system was founded on the principle that opportunity for education in this country should be available to all--not merely to those who have the ability to pay."

"A free Nation can rise no higher than the standard of excellence set in its schools and colleges."

"Education is the keystone in the arch of freedom and progress."