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

Topics: Education Quotes, Teachers And Teaching Quotes, Youth Quotes

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle...

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle...

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...

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective...

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective...

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the...

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the...

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...

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

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

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

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education...

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education...

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we...

Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we...

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...

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...

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free...

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free...

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

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

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded...

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded...

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to...

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to...

The most exciting place to discover talent is in yourself

The most exciting place to discover talent is in yourself