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The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#communities #now #online #people #reside

While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#books #i #interest #many #multiple

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#activity #because #exalted #excellence #good

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

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#everything #i #make #man #mean

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

#assumptions #capable #capacity #caught #creative

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

— John W. Gardner

#like #living #looks #never #through

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#excellence #extraordinarily #ordinary #ordinary things #things

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#doing #excellence #i #i am #kind

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#every #excellence #free #free man #goal