1961 - Education

Education

President Eisenhower warns in his farewell TV address January 17 that universities will cease to be free if they accept federal funds that will tend to corrupt historians and force compromises with truth.

President Kennedy says in his first State of the Union message January 30 that federal grants for education can be delayed no longer: "Our classrooms contain 2 million more children than they properly have room for, taught by 90,000 teachers not properly qualified to teach."