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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

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

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


#burden #conviction #education #educational #else

The cynic says, "One man can't do anything." I say, "Only one man can do anything."


John W. Gardner


#cynic #i #man #only #say

I just think I've always been sensitive and had difficulty containing my feelings, and I've always searched for outlets for that, because otherwise those feelings come out in chaotic ways that aren't always great.


Andrew Garfield


#because #been #chaotic #come #containing






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