I will propose a National Teachers Corps to enlist thousands of dedicated teachers to work alongside local teachers in city slums and in areas of rural poverty where they can really serve their Nation.
Remarks in New York City Before the Convention of the National Education Association.
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In that pursuit, Mr. President, United States support will be gladly given.
We are grateful for the impressive gesture of good will and partnership that you have extended to us.
Sometimes it is your job to go out and scout the road, to encounter and overcome the difficulties that always accompany such a vast new venture as this.
Your reward--and it is coming--will be seen in the faces of children who will come down the road that you have helped to open.
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