Before the fall of Spiro Agnew it was fast becoming the new conventional wisdom to believe our communications media had become philosophically corrupt.
This address (non-controversial and non-partisan) is on the subject because as Americans we ought always, like Lincoln, to seek for the meaning of great events.
Whether total investment, employment, or revenue is considered, education currently is the biggest and the most rapidly expanding major American industry.
We know of no human community whose members do not have a vision of perfection in which the frustrations inherent in our human condition are transcended.