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John W. Gardner

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The world loves talent but pays off on character.


— John W. Gardner


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Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.


— John W. Gardner


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It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.


— John W. Gardner


#age

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


#education

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.


— 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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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


#cut #flowers #giving #grow #ineffective

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.


— John W. Gardner


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


— John W. Gardner


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Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.


— John W. Gardner


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About John W. Gardner

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Did you know about John W. Gardner?

He authored books on improving leadership in American society and other subjects. Berkeley. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities at Stanford University a center that partners with communities to develop leadership conduct research and effect change to improve the lives of youth.

During World War II he served in the United States Marine Corps as a captain. Gardner was featured on the cover and in an article of the January 20 1967 Time magazine and later that year also presided over the creation of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. During this tenure the Department undertook both the huge task of launching Medicare which brought quality health care to senior citizens and oversaw significant expansions of the landmark Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 that redefined the federal role in education and targeted funding to poor students.

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