"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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"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
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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."
-John W. Gardner
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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."
-John W. Gardner
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"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."
-John W. Gardner
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"History never looks like history when you are living through it."
-John W. Gardner
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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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