I Hate To Think That We May

Most Of Our Competitor Nations Around The World Have A National Education System And America Is The Only Major Nation In The World That Operates Off Of Local School Boards. They Receive Very Little Direction From State Boards Of Education Or From The Nation. So Local School Boards Direct Basically What Happens And Too Often They're Not Willing To Track Or To Do The Supervision Of The Education System That Will Make It World Competitive.

America Put More Money Into Research, Into The New And The Unknown Than Any Nation In History, And The Same Thing With Education, And Those Two Things Led Us Into A Worldwide Preeminence In A Very Short Period Of Time.

I Think We're A Long Ways From Really Putting Colonies Of People Out There Who Would Live Their Whole Lives Out There In Space. I Don't See That Happening For Quite Some Time.

In America, We Have No Means Of Getting To Our Own Space Station. We Have To Pay The Russians To Put Our People Up There To Send Them Into Space - Rendezvous With The Station And Bring Them Back At The End Of Their Stay, And That To Me Is Just Wrong. We're Supposed To Be The World's Greatest Space-faring Nation, And To Cancel Our Own Means Of Getting There I Thought Was A Mistake, Even Though It Would Save Some Money.

I Think A Mentor Gets A Lot Of Satisfaction In A Couple Of Ways. They're Doing Something Constructive, So They Feel Good About That. And When They See The Results Of This, With The Young People They're Working With, It's Very, Very Rewarding.