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Peter Drucker -
Throughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word 'school' - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning 'leisure.'
Peter Drucker
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The tool user, provided the tool is made well, need not, and indeed should not, know anything about the tool.
Peter Drucker -
The individual needs the return to spiritual values, for he can survive in the present human situation only by reaffirming that man is not just a biological and psychological being but also a spiritual being, that is creature, and existing for the purposes of his Creator and subject to Him.
Peter Drucker -
The subordinate's job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management book say bosses should be like. It is to enable a particular boss to perform as a unique individual.
Peter Drucker -
The computer is a moron.
Peter Drucker -
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals', the ones who somehow know how to teach.
Peter Drucker