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
education teaching flower
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.
children home apathy
At home we have lost the capacity to see what is before us. Travel shakes us out of our apathy, and we regain an attentiveness that heightens every experience. The exhilaration of travel has many sources, but surely one of them is that we recapture in some measure the unspoiled awareness of children.
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Life is an endless process of self-discovery.
business men cynic
The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."
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One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
relationship people society
Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.
respect army people
If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.
life wisdom travel
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
inspirational happiness using-your-talents
True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
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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.
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The DRI350 performs HD Radio and AM/FM radio processing, such that if you lose the digital sidebands, you have the analog center channel to fall back on.
cynic man
The cynic says, ''One man can't do anything.'' I say, ''Only one man can do anything.''
five found high hours school staggering study
It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs.