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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.

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.

For Every Talent That Poverty Has Stimulated It Has Blighted A Hundred.

Tax Reduction Has An Almost Irresistible Appeal To The Politician, And It Is No Doubt Also Gratifying To The Citizen. It Means More Dollars In His Pocket, Dollars That He Can Spend If Inflation Doesn't Consume Them First. But Dollars In His Pocket Won't Buy Him Clean Streets Or An Adequate Police Force Or Good Schools Or Clean Air And Water. Handing Money Back To The Private Sector In Tax Cuts And Starving The Public Sector Is A Formula For Producing Richer And Richer Consumers In Filthier And Filthier Communities. If We Stick To That Formula We Shall End Up In Affluent Misery.

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