All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.
John Gardner quote When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
John Gardner quote Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.
John Gardner quote 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.
John Gardner quote We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
John Gardner quote Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.
John Gardner quote The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
John Gardner quote The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
John Gardner quote Biography
American educationist, 1912+
