“I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.”
— John W. Gardner
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“Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.”
— John W. Gardner
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“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.”
— John W. Gardner
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“One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.”
— John W. Gardner
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“For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.”
— John W. Gardner
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Category: politics
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“When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.”
— John W. Gardner
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“The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.”
— John W. Gardner
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“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities – brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.”
— John W. Gardner
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“It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.”
— John W. Gardner
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“If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.”
— John W. Gardner
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