The education of our people should be a lifelong process by which we continue to feed new vigor into the lifestream of the Nation through intelligent, reasoned decisions. Let us not think of education only in terms of its costs, but rather in terms of the infinite potential of the human mind that can be realized through education. Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our Nation.


John F. Kennedy: "Proclamation 3422 - American Education Week, 1961," July 25, 1961. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project.

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The education of our people should be a lifelong process by which we continue to feed new vigor into the lifestream of the Nation through...

The education of our people should be a lifelong process by which we continue to feed new vigor into the lifestream of the Nation through...

The education of our people should be a lifelong process by which we continue to feed new vigor into the lifestream of the Nation through...

The education of our people should be a lifelong process by which we continue to feed new vigor into the lifestream of the Nation through...