The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.
James MacGregor BurnsThose who remember only that the Roosevelts served hot dogs to the royals will be fascinated by this well-researched account of an historic and ennobling relationship - a great story!
James MacGregor BurnsLeaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.
James MacGregor Burns"Teachers"... treat students neither coercively nor instrumentally but as joint seekers of truth and of mutual actualization. They help students define moral values not by imposing their own moralities on them but by positing situations that pose hard moral choices and then encouraging conflict and debate. They seek to help students rise to higher stages of moral reasoning and hence to higher levels of principled judgment.
James MacGregor Burns