Lyndon Johnson actually said...

This Nation has really always been an experiment--an experiment in the capacity of a whole people, ruling its rulers, to deal with changing ...

We need education which will stimulate and which will energize the free spirit, rather than to crush it and dampen it, as is so often true.

We asked you to come here to stimulate some fresh thinking, not just talk about old ideas.

Belief in education is, of course, not a new belief.