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John W Gardner

If you don’t give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he’ll make plenty when he gets to college.

– John W Gardner

John W Gardner

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

– John W Gardner

John W Gardner

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 W Gardner

John W Gardner

Our problem is not to find better values but to be faithful to those we profess.

– John W Gardner

John W Gardner

The cynic says, ‘One man can’t do anything.’ I say, ‘Only one man can do anything.’

– John W Gardner

John W Gardner

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

– John W Gardner

John W Gardner

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

– John W Gardner

John W Gardner

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 W Gardner

John W Gardner

It’s a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs.

– John W Gardner

John W Gardner

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

– John W Gardner

John W Gardner

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 W Gardner

John W Gardner

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 W Gardner

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