John W. Gardner

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities – brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems…

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

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in…

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred…

True happiness involves the full use of one’s power and talents…

Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders…

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser…

If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective…

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing…

America’s greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments…

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

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden…

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the…

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut…

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education…