The world loves talent but pays off on character.
John W. GardnerFor every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
John W. GardnerOne of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
John W. GardnerPolitical extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
John W. GardnerNothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, “You can’t keep a good man down.” Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down.
John W. GardnerDifficulty is a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
John W. GardnerMuch education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
John W. GardnerTags: education
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. GardnerTags: education learning homeschooling homeschool
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. GardnerTags: politics
Life is like a drawing without an eraser
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