I saw a quote by President Eisenhower today and when I went to look up the full context of the quote, I found a plethora of really great things said by this man. We mostly think of Eisenhower as a Kansas boy as that is where he was raised and made his home. But he was born in Denison, Texas, just an hour north of the Dallas area. We claim him, too. :-)
I read a great quote that he made about education and when I went to find the source/context, I found these as well:
“The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.”
Address at the College of William and Mary, May 15, 1953
Address at the College of William and Mary, May 15, 1953
"It is unwise to make education too cheap. If everything is provided freely, there is a tendency to put no value on anything. Education must always have a certain price on it; even as the very process of learning itself must always require individual effort and initiative."
Address, Centennial Celebration Banquet of the National Education Association, Washington, DC, 4/4/57
And the one that started the search (and I still don't know the context):
A distinguishing characteristic of our nation - and a great strength - is the development of our institutions within the concept of individual worth and dignity. Our schools are among the guardians of that principle. Consequently . . . and deliberately their control and support throughout our history have been - and are - a state and local responsibility. . . . Thus was established a fundamental element of the American public school system - local direction by boards of education responsible immediately to the parents of children. Diffusion of authority among tens of thousands of school districts is a safeguard against centralized control and abuse of the educational system that must be maintained. We believe that to take away the responsibility of communities and states in educating our children is to undermine not only a basic element of our freedoms but a basic right of our citizens. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
