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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
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John W. Gardner
politician
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1912 – 2002
John William Gardner was Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) under President Lyndon Johnson. He was a strong advocate for citizen participation and founded Common Cause; he became known as "the father of campaign finance reform".
All Quotes by John W. Gardner
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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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Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
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True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
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It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
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One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
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True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
— John W. Gardner
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Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
— John W. Gardner
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True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.
— John W. Gardner
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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.
— John W. Gardner
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More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More and more Americans are appalled by the ravages of industrial progress, by the defacement of nature, by man-made ugliness. If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.
— John W. Gardner
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Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
— John W. Gardner
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History never looks like history when you are living through it.
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We have to face the fact that most men and women out there are more stale than they know, more bored than they care to admit.
— John W. Gardner