Quote

In the Western tradition, we have focused on teaching as a skill and forgotten what Socrates knew: teaching is a gift, learning is a skill.

Peter Drucker

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Peter Drucker
Age: 95 †
Born: 1909
Born: November 19
Died: 2005
Died: November 11
Author
Businessperson
Columnist
Economist
Journalist
Lawyer
Philosopher
Sculptor
University Teacher
Writer
Vienna
Austria
Peter F. Drucker
Peter Ferdinand Drucker
Tradition
Gift
Skills
Teachability
Teaching
Socrates
Learning
Skill
Knew
Focused
Forgotten
Western

More quotes by Peter Drucker

Image
People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs.
Peter Drucker
Image
Do the right things instead of trying to do everything right.
Peter Drucker
Image
As a manager you're paid to be uncomfortable. If you're comfortable, it's a sure sign you're doing things wrong.
Peter Drucker
Image
A fundamental responsibility of leadership is make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it.
Peter Drucker
Image
There are usually half a dozen right answers to what needs to be done. Yet, unless a person makes the risky and controversial choice of only one, he will achieve nothing.
Peter Drucker
Image
Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information.
Peter Drucker
Image
The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.
Peter Drucker
Image
We have only one alternative: either to build a functioning industrial society or see freedom itself disappear in anarchy and tyranny.
Peter Drucker
Image
Nobody can predict the future the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.
Peter Drucker
Image
The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary humans beings to do extraordinary things.
Peter Drucker
Image
Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything.
Peter Drucker
Image
The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs.
Peter Drucker
Image
Knowledge is power, which is why people who had it in the past often tried to make a secret of it. In post-capitalism, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not from hiding it.
Peter Drucker
Image
We can't make people better by trying to eliminate their weaknesses, but we can help then perform better by building on their strengths.
Peter Drucker
Image
If you have too many problems, maybe you should get out of business. There is no law that says a company must last forever.
Peter Drucker
Image
Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
Peter Drucker
Image
Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values. Knowing where one belongs can transform an ordinary person - hardworking and competent but otherwise mediocre - into an outstanding performer.
Peter Drucker
Image
That the government's power under the Taft-Hartley Act to stop a strike by injunction so clearly strengthens the hand of the employer-even though it is used only when a strike threatens the national health, welfare, or safety-is a grave blemish and explains much of union resistance to the Act.
Peter Drucker
Image
The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker
Peter Drucker
Image
Never ask who's right. Start out by asking what is right. And you find that out by listening to dissenting, disagreeing opinions.
Peter Drucker