John F. Kennedy Quotes About Education
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The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
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Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. Our requirements for world leadership, our hopes for economic growth, and the demands of citizenship itself in an era such as this all require the maximum development of every young American's capacity. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
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It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
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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 of the nation.
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Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
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I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.
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In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.
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Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.
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All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.
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A child miseducated is a child lost.
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Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other obligations, are unable or unwilling to go deeper into debt. ... It is, moreover, only prudent economic and social policy for the public to share part of the costs of the long period of higher education for those whose development is essential to our national economic and social well-being. All of us share in the benefits - all should share in the costs.
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The human mind is our fundamental resource.
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Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
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John F. Kennedy
- Born: May 29, 1917
- Died: November 22, 1963
- Occupation: 35th U.S. President
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