Peter Drucker Quotes About Teaching

Quotes about: Teaching

• 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

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  Peter Drucker (2017). “The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society”, p.310, Routledge

• We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

  Peter Drucker

  Change, Teacher, Educational

• Knowledge people and service people learn the most when they teach .

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Teaching, People

  "Managing for the Future".

• We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop

  Peter Drucker

  Teaching, Leader, Enough Time

• There is a great need for a new approach, new methods and new tools in teaching, man's oldest and most reactionary craft. There is great need for a rapid increase in the productivity of learning. There is, above all, great need for methods that will make the teacher effective and multiply his or her efforts and competence. Teaching is, in fact, the only traditional craft in which we have not yet fashioned the tools that make an ordinary person capable of superior performance. In this respect, teaching is far behind medicine, where the tools first became available a century or more ago.

  Peter Drucker

  Teacher, Teaching, Men

• 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

  Teaching, Skills, Forgotten

  Peter F. Drucker (1999). “Adventures of a Bystander”, p.81, Transaction Publishers

• Every enterprise is learning and teaching institution. Training and development must be built into it on all levels, training and development that never stop.

  Peter Drucker

  Teaching, Training, Development

  Peter Ferdinand Drucker (2006). “Classic Drucker: Essential Wisdom of Peter Drucker from the Pages of Harvard Business Review”, p.195, Harvard Business Press

• I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself.

  Peter Drucker

  Teaching, Thinking, People

• Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can teach them skills - accounting and what have you - but you can't teach them management.

  Peter Drucker

  Teaching, Years, Mba

  "Peter Drucker" by Peter Starbuck, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2005.

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