○  英语演讲：the great society  ○

aid teachers are unqualified. so we must give every child a place to sit and a teacher to learn from. poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

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.

these are three of the central issues of the great society. while our government has many programs directed at those issues, i do not pretend that we have the full answer to those problems. but i do promise this: we are going to assemble the best thought and the broadest knowledge from all over the world to find those answers for america.

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.

the solution to these problems does not rest on a massive program in washington, 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.

woodrow wilson once wrote: "every man sent out from his university should be a man of his nation as well as a man of his time."

within your lifetime powerful forces, already loosed, will take us toward a way of life beyond the realm of our experience, almost be

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