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Committee for Rural Development Program, 1958 - 163 pagini

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Pagina 52 - Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the works of peace. Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
Pagina 51 - The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.
Pagina 72 - You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
Pagina 22 - In a local community in their country a citizen may conceive of some need which is not being met. What does he do? He goes across the street and discusses it with his neighbor. Then what happens? A committee comes into existence and then the committee begins functioning on behalf of that need, and you won't believe this but it's true.
Pagina 22 - These Americans are the most peculiar people in the world. You'll not believe it when I tell you how they behave. In a local community in their country, a citizen may conceive of some need which is not being met. What does he do?
Pagina 30 - ... attacking the problems outlined in the Report. A first installment has been published and others will be issued from time to time by the US Office of Education. By example from its own approach, and by precept, the Committee stresses the importance of participation by the layman in the planning process. Education as a function is one of the most complex in modern society, and the most complex of those directly dependent upon appreciation by the layman whose money in gifts and taxes must support...
Pagina 107 - In this country we believe that human personality and human rights are sacred. But to be true to itself, democracy must labor to create the conditions under which individuals may reach their full human stature. Disheartened and idle young people cannot help but add to the danger of destroying the very things we most want to perserve. The problems of youth demand immediate action.
Pagina 29 - The issues with which the committee dealt were the need for teachers, the need for assistance to students, expansion and diversity of educational opportunities, financing higher education, and the relation of the federal government to education.
Pagina 35 - Republic to watching, and intelligently observing and thinking, and there ia no secret of nature or art we cannot find out; no disease of man or beast we cannot understand; no evil we cannot remedy; no obstacle we cannot surmount; nothing that lies in the power of man to do or to understand, that cannot be understood and done.
Pagina 36 - The challenge presented by this opportunity points up, rather than supplants, the cardinal role of education. That role is to develop human beings of high character, of courageous heart, and independent mind, who can transmit and enrich our society's intellectual, cultural...

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