“No country can possibly move ahead, no free society can possibly be sustained, unless it has an educated citizenry whose qualit
ies of mind and heart permit it to take part in the complicated and increasingly sophisticated decisions that pour not only upon the President and upon the Congress, but upon all the citizens who exercise the ultimate power.” Read the quote by John F. Kennedy in the Prepare phase of the lesson.
What phrase would best describe the intellectual quality that Kennedy is describing in this passage?
