David P. Gardner Quotes
Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
-
The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
-
Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm very intrigued by her work. She's so cool. I still call her 'Mom' when I see her.
-
I guess I don't believe that death is the end.
-
I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
-
If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
-
I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
-
I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
-
I like the slow Scandinavian pace. I don't need cliffhangers in every chapter because I don't want to make a Hollywood movie out of it.
-
There's not one thing that inspires me the most. Me and my friends joke around with each other and hang out so much that whatever makes us laugh really hard makes it into 'Workaholics.' But the characters that I think are funny are guys that are confidently stupid.
-
And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other's differences and help prop each other up.
-
What you have to understand is that blues... it's in a line from the oldest forms of African music. If you're playing it like it's an echo of the past, it would be a lot less exciting, but this music lives today.
-
If my children were hungry I should think I would steal to feed them.
-
I'm a spiritual person, I'm an America, I'm a Jew, and all of those things influence every breath I take, everywhere I go.
-
Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.
-
I think my confidence has developed over the years in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be.
-
The Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say.
-
If you torture words enough, they'll confess to anything.
-
When you accept the way things are, there's really no other way to operate than the way you've been conditioned to. You live in America: you're free to vote, you go vote, and you continue to see the problems of being a nationalistic society. You don't really know what to do because you're conditioned to feel that's just the way things are.
-
Everybody is talking about the Triple Crown, but I want to win the Open. That is my aim.
-
We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious.
-
But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.
-
I'm not a statistician, but it doesn't take a genious to work out that 100 million children being denied an education is ridiculous. There is nothing lost in translation here, it's obvious that's wrong.
-
Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.
