President Lyndon B. Johnson
“In many places, classrooms are overcrowded and
curricula are outdated. Most of our qualified teachers are under paid, and many
of our paid teachers are unqualified. So we must give every child a place to
sit and a teacher to learn from. Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and
learning must offer an escape from poverty.”
“Every child must be encouraged to get as much
education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake --
but for the nation's sake.”
“Education is the key to opportunity in our society, and the equality
of educational opportunity must be the birthright of every citizen”
Lilian Katz, Ph.D.
“Curriculum should
help children make deeper and fuller understanding of their own experience”-
“I believe that we tend to overestimate children
academically and underestimate them intellectually… early introduction of
formal academic instruction may not be in the best interests of many of our
children and, in fact, may be damaging in the long term”
Lyndon B. Johnson had a great passion and understanding of the benefit of education to not only children and families but also to the nation as a whole. It is too bad that today's politicians say they understand the value of education as they swipe the pen across a paper to cut the education budget.
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