John W. Gardner Quotes & Sayings

29 most famous John W. Gardner quotes and sayings (educator). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

“True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.”

“Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”

“Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.”

“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”

“History never looks like history when you are living through it.”

“Political 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.”

“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.”

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

“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.”