Much Education Today Is Monumentally Ineffective. All

We Get Richer And Richer In Filthier And Filthier Communities Until We Reach A Final State Of Affluent Misery - Crocus On A Garbage Heap.

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.

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.

Perhaps The Most Promising Trend In Our Thinking About Leadership Is The Growing Conviction That The Purposes Of The Group Are Best Served When The Leader Helps Followers Develop Their Own Initiative, Strengthens Them In The Use Of Their Own Judgment, Enables Them To Grow, And To Become Better Contributors.

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.