John W. Gardner Quotes About Learning

Quotes about: Learning

• 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

  Education, Flower, Teaching

• We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

  John W. Gardner

  Courage, Powerful, Fear

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

  John W. Gardner

  Failure, Reading, Learning

• There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

  John W. Gardner

  Failure, Learning, Want

• Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.

  John W. Gardner

  Education, Time, Moving

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