Georges Braque

Georges Braque: "Georges Braque
(1882-1963)"

"The only thing that matters in art is the part that can't be explained."

John W. Gardner Quotes

John W. Gardner Quotes: " 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.
John W. Gardner"

John W. Gardner Quotes

John W. Gardner Quotes: " 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 Quotes

John W. Gardner Quotes: " 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"

John W. Gardner Quotes

John W. Gardner Quotes: "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." John W. Gardner

John W. Gardner Quotes

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

This is because we teach kids that failure and success are "mutually exclusive." Read that again slowly.