John W. Gardner Quotes

Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it.

Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.

When you compare individuals, rather than countries, you find that education improves both income and the quality of life.

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

Anyone can be self-educated if they find the loose end of something to care about passionately.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

It is a mistake to separate learning for work and for community and personal development.

When you're educated, you must offer others a road to success.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Our age gives the more receptive among the young such a sense of social responsibility that one is inclined at times to fear that social interests may encroach upon individual development, that a knowledge of all the ills affecting the community may act as too powerful a damper on the joys of youth.

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

All my life, I just felt that I should have finished my education.

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

Man learns from the cradle to the grave.

In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man

Education made us what we are.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it .... For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

A great education is a passport to a new life

Education is important even beyond the bounds of the opportunities it gives to the individual; it is a crucial and basic requirement for ensuring effective democracy and human rights.

Education from the lowest to the highest form must have for its object the training of the individual so that, in seeking the fullest satisfaction of his own nature, he will harmoniously perform his function as a member of a corporate society.

The most trusted way to keep moving up that value chain is to keep investing in individuals - to help them grow in knowledge and skills. Education is hard. It takes individuals to do the hard work.

Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.

Education is equally important in one's life.