For once the battle is lost, once our natural splendor is destroyed, it can never be recaptured. And once man can no longer walk with beauty or wonder at nature his spirit will wither and his sustenance be wasted.
. There your children's lives will be shaped. Our society will not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination. We are still far from that goal. Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of , have not finished 5 years of school. Nearly 20 million have not finished 8 years of school. Nearly 54 million -- more than one quarter of all have not even finished high school.
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 school enrollment will be 5 million greater than 1960? And high school enrollment will rise by 5 million. And college enrollment will increase by more than 3 million.
But more classrooms and more teachers are not enough. We must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as it grows in size. This means better training for our teachers. It means preparing youth to enjoy their hours of leisure as well as their hours of labor. It means exploring new techniques of teaching, to find new ways to stimulate the love of learning and the capacity for creation.
I intend to establish working groups to prepare a series of White House conferences and meetings -- on the cities, on natural beauty, on the quality of education, and on other emerging challenges. And from these meetings and from this inspiration and from these studies we will begin to set our course toward the Great Society.
nor can it rely solely on the strained resources of local authority. They require us to create new concepts of cooperation, a creative federalism, between the National Capital and the leaders of local communities.
Within your lifetime powerful forces, already loosed, will take us toward a way of life beyond the realm of our experience, almost beyond the bounds of our imagination.
toward a new age. You have the chance never before afforded to any people in any age. You can help build a society where the demands of morality, and the needs of the spirit, can be realized in the life of the Nation.
will you join in the battle to give every citizen the full equality which God enjoins and the law requires, whatever his belief, or race, or the color of his skin?
Will you join in the battle to build the Great Society, to prove that our material progress is only the foundation on which we will build a richer life of mind and spirit?
Those who came to this land sought to build more than just a new country. They sought a new world. So I have come here today to your campus to say that you can make their vision our reality. So let us from this moment begin our work so that in the future men will look back and say: It was then, after a long and weary way, that man turned the exploits of his genius to the full enrichment of his life.
戰(zhàn)斗中失去了，一旦我們的自然光彩被破壞，它就再也不能恢復(fù)。而一旦男人不能再走路，或是在大自然中，他的精神就會(huì)枯萎，他的食物也就被浪費(fèi)了。
。你的孩子們的生活將會(huì)被塑造。我們的社會(huì)將不會(huì)是偉大的，直到每一個(gè)年輕的思想是自由掃描的思想和想象的遙遠(yuǎn)的。我們還遠(yuǎn)沒有那個(gè)目標(biāo)。今天，8000000個(gè)成年美國人，超過整個(gè)人口，還沒有完成5年的學(xué)校。近20000000年8年的學(xué)校沒有完成。將近54000000多個(gè)季度甚至連高中都沒有完成。
每年有超過100000的高中畢業(yè)生，他們都沒有進(jìn)入大學(xué)，因?yàn)樗麄儾荒茇?fù)擔(dān)得起。如果我們不能對(duì)今天的年輕人進(jìn)行教育，我們1970歲時(shí)會(huì)做什么呢？小學(xué)入學(xué)率將超過5000000，1960？和高中入學(xué)率將上升5000000。和大學(xué)入學(xué)率將增加3000000以上。
但更多的教室和更多的教師是不夠的。我們必須尋求一種教育體系，它隨著規(guī)模的增長而增長。這意味著更好的培訓(xùn)，為我們的教師。它意味著準(zhǔn)備青年人享受他們的閑暇時(shí)間，以及他們的勞動(dòng)時(shí)間。它意味著探索新的教學(xué)方法，尋找新的方法來激發(fā)學(xué)習(xí)的熱愛和創(chuàng)造的能力。
我打算建立一個(gè)工作組，準(zhǔn)備一系列的白宮會(huì)議和會(huì)議，在城市，對(duì)自然美，教育質(zhì)量，以及對(duì)其他新出現(xiàn)的挑戰(zhàn)。而從這些會(huì)議中，從這個(gè)啟示，從這些研究中，我們將開始走向偉大的社會(huì)。
它也不能完全依賴當(dāng)?shù)卣木o張資源。他們要求我們創(chuàng)造合作的新概念，創(chuàng)造性的聯(lián)邦制，國家資本和當(dāng)?shù)厣鐓^(qū)的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人之間。
在你的一生中強(qiáng)大的力量，已經(jīng)釋放，將把我們帶向一種生活方式超越我們經(jīng)驗(yàn)的領(lǐng)域，幾乎超出我們的想象范圍。
走向一個(gè)新時(shí)代。你有機(jī)會(huì)從未在任何年齡的人提供給任何人。你可以幫助建立一個(gè)道德的要求，精神的需要，可以在國家的生活中實(shí)現(xiàn)的社會(huì)。
你會(huì)加入到給每一個(gè)公民的完全平等，上帝要求和法律要求的戰(zhàn)斗，不管他們的信仰，種族，或是他的膚色？
你會(huì)加入我們的偉大社會(huì)，來證明我們的物質(zhì)進(jìn)步只是我們要建立一個(gè)更豐富的精神生活的基礎(chǔ)嗎？
那些來到這片土地的人試圖建立一個(gè)新的國家。他們尋求一個(gè)新的世界。所以我今天來到你們的校園，說你們可以使他們的愿景成為我們的現(xiàn)實(shí)。因此，讓我們從這一刻開始我們的工作，以便在未來的人會(huì)回頭看，然后說：它是，然后，經(jīng)過漫長而疲憊的方式，那人把他的天才的攻擊，充分豐富他的生活。
. There your children's lives will be shaped. Our society will not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination. We are still far from that goal. Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of , have not finished 5 years of school. Nearly 20 million have not finished 8 years of school. Nearly 54 million -- more than one quarter of all have not even finished high school.
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 school enrollment will be 5 million greater than 1960? And high school enrollment will rise by 5 million. And college enrollment will increase by more than 3 million.
But more classrooms and more teachers are not enough. We must seek an educational system which grows in excellence as it grows in size. This means better training for our teachers. It means preparing youth to enjoy their hours of leisure as well as their hours of labor. It means exploring new techniques of teaching, to find new ways to stimulate the love of learning and the capacity for creation.
I intend to establish working groups to prepare a series of White House conferences and meetings -- on the cities, on natural beauty, on the quality of education, and on other emerging challenges. And from these meetings and from this inspiration and from these studies we will begin to set our course toward the Great Society.
nor can it rely solely on the strained resources of local authority. They require us to create new concepts of cooperation, a creative federalism, between the National Capital and the leaders of local communities.
Within your lifetime powerful forces, already loosed, will take us toward a way of life beyond the realm of our experience, almost beyond the bounds of our imagination.
toward a new age. You have the chance never before afforded to any people in any age. You can help build a society where the demands of morality, and the needs of the spirit, can be realized in the life of the Nation.
will you join in the battle to give every citizen the full equality which God enjoins and the law requires, whatever his belief, or race, or the color of his skin?
Will you join in the battle to build the Great Society, to prove that our material progress is only the foundation on which we will build a richer life of mind and spirit?
Those who came to this land sought to build more than just a new country. They sought a new world. So I have come here today to your campus to say that you can make their vision our reality. So let us from this moment begin our work so that in the future men will look back and say: It was then, after a long and weary way, that man turned the exploits of his genius to the full enrichment of his life.
戰(zhàn)斗中失去了，一旦我們的自然光彩被破壞，它就再也不能恢復(fù)。而一旦男人不能再走路，或是在大自然中，他的精神就會(huì)枯萎，他的食物也就被浪費(fèi)了。
。你的孩子們的生活將會(huì)被塑造。我們的社會(huì)將不會(huì)是偉大的，直到每一個(gè)年輕的思想是自由掃描的思想和想象的遙遠(yuǎn)的。我們還遠(yuǎn)沒有那個(gè)目標(biāo)。今天，8000000個(gè)成年美國人，超過整個(gè)人口，還沒有完成5年的學(xué)校。近20000000年8年的學(xué)校沒有完成。將近54000000多個(gè)季度甚至連高中都沒有完成。
每年有超過100000的高中畢業(yè)生，他們都沒有進(jìn)入大學(xué)，因?yàn)樗麄儾荒茇?fù)擔(dān)得起。如果我們不能對(duì)今天的年輕人進(jìn)行教育，我們1970歲時(shí)會(huì)做什么呢？小學(xué)入學(xué)率將超過5000000，1960？和高中入學(xué)率將上升5000000。和大學(xué)入學(xué)率將增加3000000以上。
但更多的教室和更多的教師是不夠的。我們必須尋求一種教育體系，它隨著規(guī)模的增長而增長。這意味著更好的培訓(xùn)，為我們的教師。它意味著準(zhǔn)備青年人享受他們的閑暇時(shí)間，以及他們的勞動(dòng)時(shí)間。它意味著探索新的教學(xué)方法，尋找新的方法來激發(fā)學(xué)習(xí)的熱愛和創(chuàng)造的能力。
我打算建立一個(gè)工作組，準(zhǔn)備一系列的白宮會(huì)議和會(huì)議，在城市，對(duì)自然美，教育質(zhì)量，以及對(duì)其他新出現(xiàn)的挑戰(zhàn)。而從這些會(huì)議中，從這個(gè)啟示，從這些研究中，我們將開始走向偉大的社會(huì)。
它也不能完全依賴當(dāng)?shù)卣木o張資源。他們要求我們創(chuàng)造合作的新概念，創(chuàng)造性的聯(lián)邦制，國家資本和當(dāng)?shù)厣鐓^(qū)的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人之間。
在你的一生中強(qiáng)大的力量，已經(jīng)釋放，將把我們帶向一種生活方式超越我們經(jīng)驗(yàn)的領(lǐng)域，幾乎超出我們的想象范圍。
走向一個(gè)新時(shí)代。你有機(jī)會(huì)從未在任何年齡的人提供給任何人。你可以幫助建立一個(gè)道德的要求，精神的需要，可以在國家的生活中實(shí)現(xiàn)的社會(huì)。
你會(huì)加入到給每一個(gè)公民的完全平等，上帝要求和法律要求的戰(zhàn)斗，不管他們的信仰，種族，或是他的膚色？
你會(huì)加入我們的偉大社會(huì)，來證明我們的物質(zhì)進(jìn)步只是我們要建立一個(gè)更豐富的精神生活的基礎(chǔ)嗎？
那些來到這片土地的人試圖建立一個(gè)新的國家。他們尋求一個(gè)新的世界。所以我今天來到你們的校園，說你們可以使他們的愿景成為我們的現(xiàn)實(shí)。因此，讓我們從這一刻開始我們的工作，以便在未來的人會(huì)回頭看，然后說：它是，然后，經(jīng)過漫長而疲憊的方式，那人把他的天才的攻擊，充分豐富他的生活。