The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.
John W. GardnerPolitical extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
John W. GardnerIt is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
John W. GardnerCreativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.
John W. Gardner