Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
In addition to our existing programs, I will recommend a new program for schools and students with a first-year authorization of $1,500 million. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
[E]very man, everywhere, should be free to develop his talents to their full potential - unhampered by arbitrary barriers of race or… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
...International education cannot be the work of one country. It is the responsibility and promise of all nations. It calls for free… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
'Human history, ' H.G. Wells once wrote, 'becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.' You and I cannot be… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
For it was only after I could become President of this country that I could really see in all its hopeful and… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished 5 years of school. Nearly 20 million… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
New laboratories and centers will help our schools lift their standards of excellence and explore new methods of teaching. These centers will… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
But more classrooms and more teachers are not enough. We must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as it grows… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Way back last summer I asked some of the most outstanding educational minds in this Nation to tackle this problem. I gave… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Most of all we need an education which will create an educated mind. This is a mind not simply a repository of… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We know that they cannot bear their share of the taxes to help pay for their education. And unless those children get… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
This Congress did more to uplift education, more to attack disease in this country and around the world, and more to conquer… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
First, this law - the National Defense Education Act - ended years and years of debate about one controversial question: 'Shall the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Second, this law has become a special symbol of our Nation's most important purpose: to fulfill the individual - his freedom, his… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
It will help at every state along the road to learning. For the pre-school years we will help needy children become aware… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
And Americans have always stood ready to pay the cost in energy and treasure which are needed to make those goals a… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We must open the doors of opportunity. We must equip our people to walk through those doors. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We decided that our first job was to help the schools serving the children from the very lowest income groups. Those families… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
A third place to build the Great Society is in the classrooms of America. There your children's lives will be shaped. Our… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
For the individual, education is the path to achievement and fulfillment; for the nation, it is a path to a society that… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
For me, it is a deep personal tragedy. I know that the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear. I… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished 5 years of school. Nearly 20 million have not… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I am afraid, ... that health begins, after seventy, and often long before, to have a meaning different from that which it had at… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
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