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1、第 1 页 关于英语演讲稿：The Great Society1 特征码 KAcxlVZqQsUDoTQCReAy For once the battle is lost, once our natural splendor is destroyed, it can never be recaptured. And once man can no longer walk with beauty or wonder at nature his spirit will wither and his sustenance be wasted. . There your childrens lives
2、 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 ha
3、ve 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 todays youth, what will we do i
4、n 1970 when elementary school 第 2 页 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
5、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 in
6、tend 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 tow
7、ard 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, 第 3 页 , between the National Capital and the leaders of local munities. Within your lifetime powerful forces, already loosed, will
8、 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 realize
9、d 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 fou
10、ndation on which we will build a richer life of mind and spirit? 第 4 页 Those who came to this land sought to build more than just a new country. They sought a new world. So I have e 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.