. 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.
战斗中失去了，一旦我们的自然光彩被破坏，它就再也不能恢复。而一旦男人不能再走路，或是在大自然中，他的精神就会枯萎，他的食物也就被浪费了。
。你的孩子们的生活将会被塑造。我们的社会将不会是伟大的，直到每一个年轻的思想是自由扫描的思想和想象的遥远的。我们还远没有那个目标。今天，8000000个成年美国人，超过整个人口，还没有完成5年的开云kaiyun(中国)校。近20000000年8年的开云kaiyun(中国)校没有完成。将近54000000多个季度甚至连高中都没有完成。
每年有超过100000的高中毕业生，他们都没有进入大开云kaiyun(中国)，因为他们不能负担得起。如果我们不能对今天的年轻人进行教育，我们1970岁时会做什么呢？小开云kaiyun(中国)入开云kaiyun(中国)率将超过5000000，1960？和高中入开云kaiyun(中国)率将上升5000000。和大开云kaiyun(中国)入开云kaiyun(中国)率将增加3000000以上。
但更多的教室和更多的教师是不够的。我们必须寻求一种教育体系，它随着规模的增长而增长。这意味着更好的培训，为我们的教师。它意味着准备青年人享受他们的闲暇时间，以及他们的劳动时间。它意味着探索新的教开云kaiyun(中国)方法，寻找新的方法来激发开云kaiyun(中国)习的热爱和创造的能力。
我打算建立一个工作组，准备一系列的白宫会议和会议，在城市，对自然美，教育质量，以及对其他新出现的挑战。而从这些会议中，从这个启示，从这些研究中，我们将开始走向伟大的社会。
它也不能完全依赖当地政府的紧张资源。他们要求我们创造合作的新概念，创造性的联邦制，国家资本和当地社区的领导人之间。
在你的一生中强大的力量，已经释放，将把我们带向一种生活方式超越我们经验的领域，几乎超出我们的想象范围。
走向一个新时代。你有机会从未在任何年龄的人提供给任何人。你可以帮助建立一个道德的要求，精神的需要，可以在国家的生活中实现的社会。
你会加入到给每一个公民的完全平等，上帝要求和法律要求的战斗，不管他们的信仰，种族，或是他的肤色？
你会加入我们的伟大社会，来证明我们的物质进步只是我们要建立一个更丰富的精神生活的基础吗？
那些来到这片土地的人试图建立一个新的国家。他们寻求一个新的世界。所以我今天来到你们的校园，说你们可以使他们的愿景成为我们的现实。因此，让我们从这一刻开始我们的工作，以便在未来的人会回头看，然后说：它是，然后，经过漫长而疲惫的方式，那人把他的天才的攻击，充分丰富他的生活。
