#it

The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#because #best #community #comparisons #countries

Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell. ↗

— Marvin Gaye

#detroit #heaven #hell #out #turned

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

#campaigns #congressional #dollars #government #may

I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#am #book #boost #confused #confusion

Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#care #college #get #go #impact

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

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters. ↗

— Richard Gere

#possibility #save #saving #sisters #tibet

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

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

— John W. Gardner

#every #hundred #poverty #stimulated #talent