Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Battle Creek, MI
10/13/1960
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No task before our Nation is more important than expanding and improving the educational opportunities of all our people.
Americans are still the best-educated and best-trained people in the world.
We entrust to our teachers our most valuable possession--our children.
Every year of further delay means a further loss of the opportunity for quality instruction to students who will never get that opportunity ...