Peter F Drucker Education quotes

" When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. " # Education

" Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast." I got my degree through E-mail, Forbes (June 16, 1997) " # Education # Internet # Tradition

" Education can no longer be the sole property of the state. " # Education

" I think the growth industry of the future in this country and the world will soon be the continuing education of adults. ...I think the educated person of the future is somebody who realizes the need to continue to learn. That is the new definition and it is going to change the world we live in and work in. -- Managing in a Time of Great Change (1995) " # Education # Change # Management

" If the feudal knight was the clearest embodiment of society in the early Middle Ages, and the "bourgeois" under Capitalism, the educated person will represent society in the post-capitalist society in which knowledge has become the central resource. -- Post-Capitalist Society (1993) " # Education # Capitalism # Age and Aging

" One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work. That is why there is an enormous surge in the number of unpaid staff, volunteers. The needs are not going to go away. Business is not going to take up the slack, and government cannot. -- "New Priorities" Dancing Toward The Future, Context Institute, (1992) " # Education # Action # Time and Time Management

" Tomorrow everybody--or practically everybody--will have had the education of the upper class of yesterday, and will expect equivalent opportunities. That is why we face the problem of making every kind of job meaningful and capable of satisfying every educated man. -- Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World (1959) " # Education # Opportunity # Friends and Friendship

" ...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." -- Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World (1959) " # Education # Leisure # Language

" I had sat [in schools] long enough. I would be an adult among other adults--I had never liked being young, and contested the company of delayed adolescents as I thought most college students to be. I would earn a living and be financially independent. [recollections from age 17] " # Education # Money # Age and Aging