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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.
John W. Gardner
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John W. Gardner
Age: 89 †
Born: 1912
Born: October 8
Died: 2002
Died: February 16
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All that we know about the interaction between leaders and constituents or followers tells us that communication and influence flow in both directions and in that two-way communication, nonrational, nonverbal, and unconscious elements play their part.
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America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.
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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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Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.
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Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.
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Renewal is not just innovation and change. It is also the process of bringing the results of change into line with our purposes.
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In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.
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Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, You can't keep a good man down. Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down.
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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.
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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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The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.
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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.
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