"The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education."

-- John W. Gardner

#Education Quotes #Goal Quotes #Individual Quotes

“I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it.”
“Do more than you have to do, more than your share, and do it as well as you can.”
“I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasn't planned; it was realism. Over the years, the work has changed for me. I know that I have wanted to repeat myself, but I can't. I've been lost a lot of times, but then I'd just get an idea and photograph it. Once I'd started, I'd know exactly what would go down and how it would end. So I just quit doing it, because it loses all interest for me when you know what's going to happen.”
“What I saw a thousand times during the downturn was, 'We'd like to give her that opportunity, but we need to go with the sure thing - we can't afford diversity right now,'”
“The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?”
“Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape.”
“The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.”
“What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.”

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