John W. Gardner

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up…

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government. John…

America’s greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is…

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. John W. Gardner

History never looks like history when you are living through it. John W. Gardner

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities – brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. John W. Gardner

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an…

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. John W.…

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in…

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education.…