"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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"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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"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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"Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women."
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"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
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"Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be."
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"I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world."
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"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"
-Confucius
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