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John W. Gardner
John W. Gardner
American Educator
Born: Oct 8, 1912
Died: Feb 16, 2002
Education Excellence Free People Will You
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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
Good Humble Water Will Society Philosophy Neither Plumbing Exalted Excellence Because Nor Pipes Hold Which Theories Activity
True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents. John W. Gardner
Happiness True Happiness Power True Talents Involves Use Full
Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. John W. Gardner
Extraordinarily Excellence Well Doing Ordinary Ordinary Things Things
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. John W. Gardner
Great Opportunities Problems Faced Disguised Series Brilliantly
Political 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. Gardner
World Simple Political Conviction Back Extremism Excess Prime Involves Diagnosis Ingredients Ills Villains Two
Much 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. Gardner
Education Today People Plants Giving Own Young Too Ineffective Often Young People Them Cut Much Should Teaching Grow Flowers
America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive. John W. Gardner
Freedom Commitment People Free Aimless Has-Been Moral Promptly Free People Shared Self-Destructive Without Been Greatness America Commitments Certain Who
Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess. John W. Gardner
Problem Better Values Faithful Our Those Find Profess
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept. John W. Gardner
Creative Rest Free Assumptions Pressures Web Individual He Himself Accept Caught Questioning Which Social Capable Capacity Us Social Pressures
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
You Respect People Better Become Some More Effective Than Them Helping
The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life. John W. Gardner
Life Man Will Free Nation Every Mediocrity Striving Free Man Excellence Highest Idea Implies Goal Survive Which Themselves Standards Stands Amiable Phase Set
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
Strength Courage Judgment Eloquence Find Some Diverse Leaders Come County Qualities Styles Hear Quiet Forms Next Many
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
Education Today Will Back Entirely Could Primitive Look Most Schools Practiced Am Years Wonder Anything Certain Tolerated Twenty Now
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
Education School Burden Will Own Conviction Else Our System Individual Pursuit Shared Over Until Buildings Odd Shift Educational Ultimate His Ultimate Goal Goal Get Goes Nowhere Widely
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. John W. Gardner
Politics Poverty Every Hundred Talent Stimulated
Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are. John W. Gardner
People Some People Society Kind Some Just Being Strengthen
The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions. John W. Gardner
Age Our Sluggish Tension Between Institutions Hallmark Aspirations
If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college. John W. Gardner
Freedom You Money College Stupid Kid Plenty Give He Make Gets Choices Your Including

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