(35 quotes found)
“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”
John W. Gardner
“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.”
“Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”
“One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.”
“The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his own education”
“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.”
“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.”
“Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.”
“We teach who we are”
“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.”
