John F. Kennedy Quotes about Education

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The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

John F. Kennedy

Education, Life Lesson, Teaching

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.

John F. Kennedy

Inspirational, Education, Teaching

Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.446, Best Books on

A child miseducated is a child lost.

John F. Kennedy

Education, Teacher, Children

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

John F. Kennedy

Education, Freedom, Learning

Vanderbilt University 90th Anniversary Convocation Address, delivered 18 May 1963, Vanderbilt University Stadium, Nashville Tennessee

Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.

John F. Kennedy

Education, Leader, Firsts

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.

John F. Kennedy

Education, Dream, Teacher

Proclamation 3422 at the American Education Week, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. July 25, 1961.

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.

John F. Kennedy

Education, Money, Growth

Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.107, Best Books on

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

John F. Kennedy

Inspiring, Education, Teacher

Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.107, Best Books on

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.

John F. Kennedy

Education, Money, Mean

Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.114, Best Books on

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.

John F. Kennedy

Education, Truth, Honesty

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

John F. Kennedy

Inspirational, Education, Appreciation

Special Message to the Congress on Education, February 20, 1961.

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.

John F. Kennedy

Education, Money, Long

"John F. Kennedy: 1961 : containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the president, January 20 to December 31, 1961" by John F. Kennedy, Washington: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1962.