We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.

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

All that we know about the interaction between leaders and constituents or followers tells us that communication and influence flow in both directions; and in that two-way communication, nonrational, nonverbal, and unconscious elements play their part.

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

But if we believe what we profess concerning the worth of the individual, then the idea of individual development within a framework of ethical purpose must become our deepest concern, our national preoccupation, our passion, our obsession. We must think of education as relevant for everyone everywhere - at all ages and in all conditions of life.

Perhaps the most promising trend in our thinking about leadership is the growing conviction that the purposes of the group are best served when the leader helps followers develop their own initiative, strengthens them in the use of their own judgment, enables them to grow, and to become better contributors.

We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final state of affluent misery - crocus on a garbage heap.