John W. Gardner
John W. Gardner
John William Gardner,was Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfareunder President Lyndon Johnson...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth8 October 1912
CountryUnited States of America
integrity men people
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.
education school years
I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
faithful problem being-faithful
Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.
education goal individual
The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.
powerful failure personality
We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.
creativity practice doubt
Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.
history history-and-memory looks
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
two keys judgement
When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard.
discipline excellence purpose
All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.
running being-yourself clever
Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.
creative gaps individual
The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be.
karma men reckoning
To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.
dream spring civilization
What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams, the risk taker. And remembering that, the leader must reach down to the springs that never dry up, the ever-fresh springs of the human spirit.
law natural species
All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.