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Lyndon Johnson: “We simply cannot allow the school children of this country to find their education frustrating, unrelated to life, or…”

On the recordJuly 4, 1966
We simply cannot allow the school children of this country to find their education frustrating, unrelated to life, or inadequate to their needs in our increasingly complex world.
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Lyndon Johnson
Democratic · Texas

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Letter to Secretary Gardner on the Opening of the First Educational Laboratories for the Improvement of the Nation's...

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