Quotation by Lyndon Baines Johnson

I am not describing a distant utopia, but the kind of education which must be the great urgent work of our time. By the end of this decade, unless the work is well along, our opportunity will have slipped by.
Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973), U.S. president. "Speech, Washington, D.C.," LBJ Library, "Speech Collection," (February 16, 1966).

On international education.
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