Jimmy Carter

“ At the base of any democracy must lie a commitment to education for all.
Americans, accordingly, have an enormous stake in the vitality of our schools.
Parents, instead of being strangers to the classrooms in which their children spend so much of their lives, must become partners with teachers. ”

“ But parents and teachers cannot do the job alone. In our attitudes and our actions, in a hundred different ways, each of us influences young people toward education or away from it. This is the significance of this year's theme for American Education Week: "Working Together for Education". ”