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 3 Share Now -
If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college. - John W. Gardner 4 Share Now -
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. - John W. Gardner 6 Share Now -
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 7 Share Now -
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government. - John W. Gardner 8 Share Now -
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. - John W. Gardner 10 Share Now -
