Peter Drucker Quotes

The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves...

Peter Drucker

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• We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Great
  • Long

• Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Wisdom

• Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.

  

  Dale Archer
  • True
  • Education
  • College

• You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • Work
  • Education

• Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Learning

• When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Money
  • Education
  • Care

• Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

  

  Karl Marx
  • People
  • Experience
  • Happy

• I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Want
  • Death
  • Education

• I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Together
  • House

• I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Experience
  • Despair
  • Crisis

• But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Long
  • Alone
  • Week

• Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Education
  • Reading
  • Worth

• What people don't realize is that Tinder built a brand on more than the experience of the swipe.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Experience
  • Brand

• Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • World
  • Great
  • Country

• It wasn't such a pleasant experience. We went through 14 hours with contractions every two minutes, no epidural, no nothing. Every two minutes, I would pass out. I went to the hospital on Saturday, and Levi was born on Monday.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Experience
  • Born
  • Saturday

• One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Long
  • Man
  • Past

• The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Culture
  • Education
  • Purpose

• Mathematics, even in its present and most abstract state, is not detached from life. It is just the ideal handling of the problems of life.

  

  Cassius Jackson Keyser
  • World
  • Science
  • Education

• The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.

  

  Plato
  • Knowledge
  • Essence
  • Self-knowledge

• I'm sure Vanilla Ice is a nice guy.

  

  Marie Fredriksson Roxette
  • Guy
  • Vanilla Ice

• Oh, it sounds ridiculous, I know, in Britain in the twentieth century, but I learned in the war that civilization anywhere is a very thin crust.

  

  John Buchan
  • War

• A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Together
  • Night
  • Sleep

• The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves...

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Experience
  • Education
  • Alone