Education Quotes by Lyndon B. Johnson

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The classroom - not the trench - is the frontier of freedom now and forevermore.

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You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

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If you're not listening, you're not learning.

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We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.

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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

Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces.

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Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only…

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The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a…

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For the primary and secondary school years, we will aid public schools serving low-income families and assist students in both public and…

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We must open the doors of opportunity. We must equip our people to walk through those doors.

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Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment.

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A third place to build the Great Society is in the classrooms of America. There your children's lives will be shaped. Our…

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I don't think that I need to tell you how important to the outcome of that race is the education legislation that…

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For the individual, education is the path to achievement and fulfillment; for the nation, it is a path to a society that…

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In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the…

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We decided that our first job was to help the schools serving the children from the very lowest income groups. Those families…

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History may well record that we served liberty and saved freedom when we undertook a crash program in the field of education…

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'Human history, ' H.G. Wells once wrote, 'becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.' You and I cannot be…

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For it was only after I could become President of this country that I could really see in all its hopeful and…

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But more classrooms and more teachers are not enough. We must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as it grows…

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Way back last summer I asked some of the most outstanding educational minds in this Nation to tackle this problem. I gave…

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First, this law - the National Defense Education Act - ended years and years of debate about one controversial question: 'Shall the…

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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

We know that they cannot bear their share of the taxes to help pay for their education. And unless those children get…

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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

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

It is a truism that education is no longer a luxury. Education in this day and age is a necessity.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

It will help at every state along the road to learning. For the pre-school years we will help needy children become aware…

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Today - wealthier, more powerful and more able than ever before in our history - our Nation can declare another essential freedom.

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And Americans have always stood ready to pay the cost in energy and treasure which are needed to make those goals a…

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The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents.

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Education will not cure all the problems of society, but without it no cure for any problem is possible.

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Second, this law has become a special symbol of our Nation's most important purpose: to fulfill the individual - his freedom, his…

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Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen.

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[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

At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer…

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...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

New laboratories and centers will help our schools lift their standards of excellence and explore new methods of teaching. These centers will…

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