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“Each year more than 100,000 high school graduates, with proved ability, do not enter college because they cannot afford it. And if we cannot educate today's youth, what will we do in 1970 when elementary enrollment will be 5 million greater than 1960? And high school enrollment will rise by 5 million. College enrollment will increase by more than 3 million.”

Ifs Years Today School Ability Money Education Millions Greater Youth College High School Increase Educate Graduates 1960s Graduating High School Enrollment Today's Youth

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.”

Greater Youth Importance Instruction

Author:Peter Stuyvesant

“A silly society is a youth-obsessed society: To the Chinese, who appreciate the value of experience, the greater the ratio in a team of grey 'hairs and no-hairs' to 'black hairs' the faster and better a task will be completed. The opposite assumption obtains in the youth-obsessed U.S.”

Values Black Greater Team Youth Hair Appreciate Tasks Opposites Silly Chinese Faster Obsessed Assumption Grey Ratios Black Hair Grey Hair

Author:Ilana Mercer

“What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? [Lat., Quod enim munus reiplicae afferre majus, meliusve possumus, quam si docemus atque erudimus juventutem?]”

Education Teach Greater Youth Offers Republic

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.”

Years Fighting Asks Kindness Greater Youth Battle Privilege Adolescence Mistaken Shields

Book:The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed

Source: The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed

“Every new generation in its hour of dawn, filled with the dreams of youth, its thirsts, intoxications and enthusiasms, thinks itself called upon to impel humanity towards heights unmeasured, believes itself an appointed pathfinder, a thinker of thoughts, a doer of deeds greater than any of those which came before. Every new generation desires beauty, but a beauty all its own.”

Thinking Believe Dream Desire Humanity Hours Greater Generations Youth Filled Deeds Enthusiasm Dawn Height Thinker Thirst New Generation Doers Intoxication

Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; But a greater thing is to fight life through, and at the end, 'The dream is true!'”

Life Inspirational Believe Ends Dream Fighting Literature Greater Youth Streams Dreamer Greater Things

Author:Edwin Markham

“No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.”

Feels Done Effort Race Greater Youth Diversity Social Justice Merit Injury Express Yourself

Book:The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1912-14

Source: The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1912-14