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I Suggest That This Is A Good Time To Think Soberly About Our Responsibilities To Our Descendents - Those Who Will Ring Out The Fossil Fuel Age. Our Greatest Responsibility, As Parents And As Citizens, Is To Give America's Youngsters The Best Possible Education. We Need The Best Teachers And Enough Of Them To Prepare Our Young People For A Future Immeasurably More Complex Than The Present, And Calling For Ever Larger Numbers Of Competent And Highly Trained Men And Women.

Free Discussion Requires An Atmosphere Unembarrassed By Any Suggestion Of Authority Or Even Respect.

Responsibility Is A Unique Concept. It Can Only Reside And Inhere In A Single Individual. You May Share It With Others, But Your Portion Is Not Diminished. You May Delegate It, But It Is Still With You. You May Disclaim It, But You Cannot Divest Yourself Of It. If Responsibility Is Rightfully Yours, No Evasion, Or Ignorance Or Passing The Blame Can Shift The Burden To Someone Else. Unless You Can Point Your Finger At The Man Who Is Responsible When Something Goes Wrong, Then You Have Never Had Anyone Really Responsible.

More Than Ambition, More Than Ability, It Is Rules That Limit Contribution; Rules Are The Lowest Common Denominator Of Human Behavior. They Are A Substitute For Rational Thought.

Optimism And Stupidity Are Nearly Synonymous.