There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

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.

It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.

We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

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

We need more than individual value systems; we need a shared vision. A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs, shared attitudes. That is what enables a people to maintain a cohesive society despite the tensions of daily life. That is what enables them to rise above the conflicts that plague any society.

In the United States, to an unprecedented degree, the individual's social role has come to be determined not by who he is but by what he can accomplish.