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.

Quote by John W Gardner

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Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders...

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders...

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures...

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures...

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we...

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we...

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments....

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments....

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders...

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders...

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in...

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in...

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and...

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and...

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More...

More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More...

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden...

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden...

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble...

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble...

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and...

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and...

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may...

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may...

Life is the game that must be played.

Life is the game that must be played.

A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime...

A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime...