“People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.” “The purpose of a business is to create a customer.”
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.“ “It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time – for we are bound by that – but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.” “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
Here are some quotable lines about the value of education outside of school, the teacher being "reality." "Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school." "The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test.
“The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.” “People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.”
Career Advice Quotes by Peter Drucker. “Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.”. “If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.”. “Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.”.
Decentralization: Drucker asserted that companies work best when they are decentralized. Blue Collar: Drucker predicted the death of the “Blue Collar” worker. Outsourcing: Drucker, in his writing, used the concept of the “front room” and “backroom” of each business.
Management: Drucker believed that a manager’s job is to prepare people to perform and give them the freedom to do so. Government. Drucker claimed that the government was ineffective in providing the new services that people needed.
United States: Peter Drucker permanently relocated to the United States with the approach of WorldWar II, and in 1943, Drucker became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Bennington College: Peter Drucker became a professor of politics and philosophy at Bennington College from 1942 to 1949.
Drucker came to believe that volunteering in the nonprofit sector was the key to fostering a healthy society where people found a sense of belonging and civic pride. Business: Drucker taught that business needed to manage by balancing a variety of needs and goals, rather than subordinating to a single value.
In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.". Winston Churchill. "I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.". W. Edwards Deming. "Learning is not compulsory...but to survive, we must learn.". Peter De Vries.
Margaret Laurence. "Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.". Richard Livingstone. "If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.".
Seneca. “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”. Leonardo da Vinci. “Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.”. James Dewar. “To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education.
Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen.”. Lee Iacocca. “Despise school and remain a fool.”. German proverb. “Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.”. Bruce Lee. “As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”. Seneca.
Bill Nye. “The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”. Dorothy Parker. “Success is a poor teacher.”. Robert Kiyosaki. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”. Thomas Jefferson. “Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.”.
In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.”. Tom Bodett. “We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.”. Lloyd Alexander. “Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”.
Andy McIntyre. “The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn …and change.”. Carl Rogers. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”.
Thomas Paine . “The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”. Martin Luther King. “When you educate one person you can change a life, when you educate many you can change the world.”. Shai Reshef.
John Keats. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.“. Jim Rohn. “It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time – for we are bound by that – but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.”.