Peter Drucker Quotes About Education
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..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the bible (I read the New Testament every few years) or reading the great 19th century novelists (the greatest and shrewdest judge of people and of society who ever lived), or classical philosophy (which I cannot read-it puts me to sleep immediately), or history (which is secondary). What matters is that the knowledge worker, by the time he or she reaches middle age, has developed and nourished a human being rather than a tax accountant or a hydraulic engineer.
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In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world.
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When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.
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Since we live in an age of innovation, a practical education must prepare a man for work that does not yet exist and cannot yet be clearly defined.
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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
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