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 | "But if we believe what we profess concerning the worth of the
individual, then the idea of individual development within a framework of
ethical purpose must become our deepest concern, our national
preoccupation, our passion, our obsession. We must think of education as
relevant for everyone everywhere ? at all ages and in all conditions of
life." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too? The society which scorns
excellence in plumbing because plumbing is 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." | |
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Found in the topic Example.
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| "For every talent that poverty has stimulated, it has blighted a
hundred." | |
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Found in the topic Potential.
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| "A series of great opportunities, brilliantly disguised as insoluble
problems." | |
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Found in the topic Opportunity.
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| "Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Few have excellence
thrust upon them.... They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwittingly
by doing what comes naturally and they don"t stumble into it in the course
of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of
purpose." | |
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Found in the topic Achievement.
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