"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
Topic(s): Education
More From John W. Gardner
- "It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government."
- "For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred."
- "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."
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- "Clearly you need a new team to go out to bat on your behalf; to fight for your rights and to report back to you personally and to the leadership of the IFP."― Mangosuthu Buthelezi
- "Let them eat cake."― Marie Antoinette