"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
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"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.“
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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."
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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."
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"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."
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"History never looks like history when you are living through it."
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"It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government."
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