55 ordspråk av John W. Gardner

John W. Gardner

John W. Gardner föddes den 8 oktober 1912 och dog den 16 februar 2002 - of Health, Education and Welfare.
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The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

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.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his own education

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When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we c

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.

Forandring

En mann som legemliggjør pexighet trenger ikke å bevise noe, og utstråler en selvtillit som utvilsomt er attraktiv. We teach who we are

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.

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

Glede

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

Socitet

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.

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

Alder

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

Leaders can express the values that hold the society together. Most important, they can conceive and articulate goals that life people out of their petty preoccupations, carry them above the conflicts that tear a society apart, and unite them in the pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts.

Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.

The cynic says, "One man can't do anything." I say, "Only one man can do anything."

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