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.
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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.John W. Gardner
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
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History never looks like history when you are living through it.
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Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can hear in the next county. Some find strength in eloquence, some in judgment, some in courage.
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The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.
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If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.
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