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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History never looks like history when you are living through it.
John W. Gardner
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
John W. Gardner
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
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
Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John W. Gardner
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
Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.
John W. Gardner
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Congressional,
Government,
May,
Million,
Out,
Over,
Pay,
Presidential,
Sale,
Two,
Up,
Virtually
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