MARYLAND ASSOCIATION BOARDS OF EDUCATION 435

It is time to take inventory of our party philosophy and throw out
such stock anachronisms as spending per se is bad or Federal aid per se
is always suspect if not always evil.

We must build a modern Republican philosophy to deal with a
modern market and have it represented by modern Republican sales-
men. Most important of all in my "get tough and win" book is to
begin distinguishing between good Republicans and good Republican
candidates.

Let us award our plaques and ribbons to Republicans who work
and have worked hard to serve our party but reserve our nominations
for those — and only those — who by defeating Democrats, serve our
party best.

If we do this we will win and without victory all the arguments
over party philosophy, all the labors of the party faithful are mean-
ingless. The realization of philosophy and the rewards of principle
are predicated upon power and our victory in 1968 is the prerequisite
to power.

The vote we need to win is in the city and the suburb. It is in the
mind of youth, and in the possession of people who call themselves
Independents and Democrats. But most of all the vote is in the heart,
and when I say "Nelson Rockefeller for President" — in your heart,
you know I'm right.

ADDRESS TO MARYLAND ASSOCIATION OF BOARDS OF
EDUCATION, WASHINGTONIAN MOTEL, GAITHERSBURG

September 28, 1967

Albert Einstein once defined education as "that which remains after
you have forgotten everything you learned at school" and while this
facetious remark by the profound physicist does not reveal the total
subject, it does embrace its essence.

For education is neither the memorization of a mass of inert facts
nor the acquisition of a diploma. It is not simply a procedure of rote
or a process of limited duration. It is infinitely more than a product
and definitely more than a passport to a higher income bracket.

The goals and glory of education were perhaps best defined by
Joseph Addison when he wrote: "Education is a companion which
no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can