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Mar 5, 2017 · As President of the United States, I believe deeply no law I have signed or will ever sign means more to the future of America.”. With these words, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act on April 11, 1965. Sitting beside him was his first teacher, Ms. Kate Deadrich Loney, who taught Johnson in a one-room ...
Dec 18, 2023 · Lyndon B. Johnson The Teacher. In 1924, 15-year-old Lyndon Johnson graduated from the Johnson City High School in Texas. His college-educated parents, not surprisingly, wanted their eldest child to go to college as well. Lyndon, being 15 and acting like every 15-year-old boy in history, did not want to do what his parents wanted him to do.
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After my senior year [at Southwest Texas State Teachers College] when I started looking for a job… naturally I looked to [my uncle, George Desha Johnson] because he had been in the teaching profession all of his life. He had taken a degree at the University of Texas and later one at Ann Arbor, Michigan. He came back and taught at Port Arthur and mo...
I was frequently in Houston and I was staying with him the night Mr. [James Paul] Buchanan, the congressman, died—February 22, 1937. He [Uncle George] said he had four or five hundred dollars in the bank at Johnson City and that he would give it to me if I would run for Congress. That put the idea pretty firmly in my mind. I went back and thought a...
I really liked the college teaching and I think I would have gone into that in government. I think I would have gone back to my alma mater and taught government. I taught it for two or three years. I taught freshman government in the college that I attended. I liked that because it was more competitive and the students had more curiosity and you ha...
I felt about my students very much like I feel about my staff. I associated with them a lot socially. I would go into their homes and I would be with their family and would take them into my home, particularly the leading debaters and the ones that were on the teams. If they would take one side of a question I would take the other. I would just try...
If every child born could acquire all the education that their intelligence quotient permitted them to take, God only knows what our gross national product would be. The strength that we would add to our nation militarily, diplomatically, economically is too large even to imagine. There is no investment that we could make that would return such hig...
I would tell [young people] that the satisfaction that one gets out of life is really what you live for. Some people get satisfaction out of making money. Some people get satisfaction out of being heroes. But the satisfaction that is most satisfying and gives you the biggest kick and thrill and the greatest enjoyment is doing something for humanity...
LBJ in Cotulla. In 1928, after completing his freshman year in college, Lyndon Johnson took a teaching assignment in Cotulla, Texas. Cotulla, Texas was a small farming and ranching community about half way between San Antonio and Laredo. His assignment was to teach 5th, 6th, and 7th graders at the Welhausen School, which had been established ...
Nov 28, 2021 · Lyndon B. Johnson with the 6th and 7th grade students in the class he taught in 1928 and 1929. Cotulla, Texas. ... where the 20-year-old Lyndon Johnson had been assigned to teach math and history ...
May 24, 2024 · Description. On January 12, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson sent Congress a forceful education message proposing “that we declare a national goal of Full Educational Opportunity.”. Further, he asserted, “Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take.”.
As a former teacher, Lyndon Johnson understood the importance of education and its ability to transform people's lives. His presidentail yars saw an unprecedented wave of over 60 education bills. The park that bears his name continues this education legacy. Local educators have many opportunities to bring the unique resources of the park into ...
