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...President Johnson took a giant step with the appointment of HEW Secretary Gardner [Jan. 20]. It should be a life time appointment: without him the Great Society would be a fiasco; with him, there is hope. God help us if this post ever again becomes a political sop. ROBERT W. CARSON, M.D. Salt Lake City Sir: Secretary Gardner's comments about top executives who cannot tolerate first- class men around them illustrate what is subconscious knowledge among supervisors and employees in business and Government. The symptoms of "injelititis or palsied paralysis" are best described by C. Northcote Parkinson...
Secretary Gardner at the time of his presidency of the Carnegie Corporation, "How to Prevent Organizational...
...policymakers must take the initiative and make renewal possible. Therein lies the problem, for by discriminatory hiring and promotion policies, inept men have perpetuated and advanced mediocrity. Those who should best understand the need for renewal will be the very ones who will fight it. Good luck to Secretary Gardner; he's going to need...
...TIME says the aphorism on Mr. Gardner's desk, "Das Beste ist gut genug," Is by an "unknown" writer. Actually, it is by the not entirely unknown German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. In his Italienische Reise (Italian Journey'), we find: "In der Kunst ist das Beste gut genug" (In art the best is good enough...
Secretary Gardner answers that national testing is more likely to help local taxpayers use their schools more effectively than to give the Federal Government more influence. Opponents of assessment, insists Columbia Teachers College President John Fischer, are "suggesting that the more we know, the worse we might behave." Fischer proposes that the exact opposite is closer to the truth...