[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 31, Number 15 (Monday, April 17, 1995)]
[Pages 605-606]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 6785--Education and Sharing Day, U.S.A., 1995

April 10, 1995

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    As we move toward a complex and challenging new century, excellence 
in American education is more vital to our Nation's success than ever. 
We live in an era when advances in science and technology create new 
questions and demand more of our citizens each day. Only a national 
commitment to high-quality education can prepare our young people to 
meet the great responsibilities and opportunities of the future.
    Yet an education that prepares a child for a lifetime is more than 
an accumulation of facts or single-minded preparation for a career. It 
is also a set of ideals and ethics that unites all Americans and allows 
us to work together for a just and honorable society. Teachers, 
families, and communities play vital roles in passing on these shared 
values and common hopes for a better tomorrow.
    Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, well 
understood the importance of nurturing the heart along with the mind. 
Throughout his long and rich life, he believed that the education of our 
young people would only be successful if it sought to build character as 
well as intellect, if it taught the lessons of honesty, tolerance, and 
good citizenship, as well as language, math, and science.
    This year, let us rededicate ourselves to teaching the love of 
learning that was championed by Rabbi Schneerson and is strengthened by 
caring leaders like him throughout our Nation. As we provide our 
students with the information and practical tools they need, let us also 
pass on to them the capacity for understanding that can help to give 
fuller meaning to their lives.
    Now, Therefore, I, William J. Clinton, President of the United 
States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by

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the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim April 
11, 1995, as ``Education and Sharing Day, U.S.A.'' I call upon 
Government officials, educators, volunteers, and all the people of the 
United States to observe this day with appropriate programs, ceremonies, 
and activities.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this tenth day of 
April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-five, and of 
the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and 
nineteenth.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 10:48 a.m., April 11, 
1995]

Note: This proclamation was published in the Federal Register on April 
12.